Family nursery · Vikasnagar, Dehradun · Since 1994
Since 1994, A.K. Nursery has been shaped by a family's commitment to plants, horticulture, and the knowledge that helps cultivation flourish. Founded on the vision of Shri Ajay Kumar Badoni, our journey continues through a growing collection of horticultural and medicinal crops.
Founded on the vision of Shri Ajay Kumar Badoni
Our story
A.K. Nursery began at home in 1994, with a simple conviction held by Shri Ajay Kumar Badoni: that a life spent with plants could become something meaningful — for the family, and for the growers who would one day plant what we raise.
What started as a household's commitment grew, season by season, through patience and shared work. Every member of the family has had a hand in it, and the nursery still carries that character: careful, personal, and unhurried where plants need time.
Over the years we have learned that good cultivation begins long before planting — with understanding each crop, and with choosing the variety that suits a grower's purpose. That knowledge sits at the centre of how we work.
Today our focus is on making the nursery easier to reach: a clear catalogue of the varieties we raise, honest information about each one, and a direct line to the family for every enquiry. As we grow, we intend to extend our reach and distribution responsibly, one relationship at a time.
Shri Ajay Kumar Badoni
Founder & guiding vision of A.K. Nursery
Vision · Mission · Action
Preparing the land with oxenJune 2010
Our vision
We hope to build a nursery that growers can trust for years — one that helps more people find horticultural and medicinal crop varieties that suit their land and their purpose.
A nursery where agricultural knowledge is shared as freely as the plants themselves, and where responsible cultivation is the starting point rather than an afterthought.
Planting out, one sapling at a timeJuly 2010
Our mission
Our work is guided by a few plain commitments, held to every season and with every customer.
From our nursery to your fieldSeptember 2010
Our action
In practice, that means keeping a clear catalogue in which every variety is listed under its crop, so you always know exactly what you are asking about.
It means adding photographs and variety information as we document our stock, answering every enquiry personally, and steadily strengthening the way plants travel from our nursery to growers further afield.
From the catalogue
What three decades have taught us
Every variety has its own character — its habit of growth, the conditions it prefers, the care it asks for, and the uses it is best suited to. Two plants of the same crop can behave very differently in the same field.
Understanding a plant is part of growing it well. That understanding is not gathered in a day; it builds slowly, season after season, the way roots do beneath the soil.
It is why we would rather talk with you about your land and your intentions before recommending a variety — and why, when we are unsure, we will say so.
Seed & sapling
Root & season
Habit & care
Purpose & use
From the nursery archive · 2010 – 2011
Specimen · A.K. Nursery
Asparagus racemosus
Shatavar · roots, September 2010
Life at the nursery
Photographs from A.K. Nursery — the beds, the harvests, and the many hands that tend them.
Experience & philosophy
More than three decades in the nursery field have shaped how we think about plants, varieties, cultivation and the people we grow them for. Experience, for us, is less a number than a way of working — slower to promise, quicker to listen, and always willing to learn.
Est.
1994
30+ years of cultivation
Understand the plant before recommending it.
Respect the time and patience that cultivation requires.
Value quality and transparency in everything we offer.
Build relationships that last beyond a single order.
Grow responsibly, and keep learning.
The guiding principles of A.K. Nursery, shaped by the vision of Shri Ajay Kumar Badoni.
On their way to growersSeptember 2010
Looking ahead
Our ambition is to grow our reach across India — so that more growers, farmers and horticultural businesses can access the varieties we raise, wherever they are.
We intend to get there step by step: strengthening how we raise, pack and send plants before we promise them further afield.
Registration & credentials
Registration with the National Horticulture Board (NHB) is a goal we are working towards. We will share details here once registration is complete.
Supply is currently arranged on enquiry. Tell us the varieties and quantities you need, and where you are — we will let you know honestly what we can provide.
Explore our crop catalogue or contact us to enquire about the varieties that interest you.