Bazari Ara is an online shop in Tbilisi. We sell what small Georgian farms make: honey, spices and sauces, churchkhela, fruit leather, wine. We also carry gear for hiking and travel: tents, sleeping bags, thermoses, power banks.
The site works in Russian, English and Georgian, so it's just as easy to order whether you're a tourist here for a week or have lived in Tbilisi for years.
Why small producers
Much of what tourists take home from Georgia, like honey, churchkhela and spices, is made on family farms, not in factories. According to the 2024 agricultural census, the country has about 479.5 thousand farms, and only 2.8 thousand of them are legal entities. The rest are family farms: a house, a garden, a few rows of vines, some beehives.
A family like this usually has two options: sell the harvest to a middleman at his price, or sell it themselves. The second pays better, but it takes things a beekeeper in Racha usually doesn't have: photos, a website, a courier and someone to answer customers at nine in the evening.
That's the part we take on. For more on life on these farms and why direct sales matter so much to them, see our article on Georgian farmers.
What's in the catalog
The catalog has three main sections.
- “Gifts from Georgia” — honey, spices and sauces, churchkhela and fruit leather, wine, postcards.
- “Outdoor gear” — tents, sleeping bags, sleeping mats, thermoses, raincoats, grills and everything for a picnic.
- “Power banks and chargers” — power banks in different capacities, plus cables.
If this is your first visit, here are some easy places to start:
- honey from five regions, from Kakheti wildflower honey to Racha chestnut honey;
- Svan salt and Megrelian adjika, which stay in your kitchen longest after a trip;
- Kakheti churchkhela with walnut;
- amber qvevri wine from the CH'VENTAN winery.
Who makes what we sell
The producers we work with have their own pages in the “Farmers” section: who they are, where their farm is and what they make. The region of origin is usually right in the product name, as in “Racha Chestnut Honey” or “Imereti Tkemali Pastila”.
What we don't do: we don't write “eco” or “organic” without a certificate, and we don't call our products the best in Georgia. For a small farm, certification is a long process in itself, and “best” tells a buyer nothing. Instead, we tell you who made the product and where.
How ordering works
Choose your items, place an order on the site, and a courier delivers it within Tbilisi.
Some items are in stock at our Tbilisi warehouse, and we deliver those within 2 hours. Others we pick up from the producer once you've ordered. That's why the delivery time is shown on each product page rather than as one figure for the whole site. If your cart has both kinds, go by the item with the longest delivery time.
Every step, plus delivery and returns, is covered in detail in our article “How to order on bazariara.ge”.
Why honey and tents in one shop
Fair question. We hike in the mountains around Tbilisi ourselves, and most of the gear in the catalog is what we take with us. And a jar of honey or a bundle of churchkhela is what people bring home from that same trip.
Often it's the same customer for both: someone who came to Georgia to hike, explore and try the food. For where to start exploring the area around the city, see our guide to hiking around Tbilisi.
How to reach us
- WhatsApp: +995 591 017 945
- Telegram: t.me/bazariarage
- We reply from 9:00 to 21:00
You can ask about a specific product, check whether an order can arrive by a certain date, or ask for help choosing a gift.
In short
- Bazari Ara is an online shop in Tbilisi selling food from small Georgian farms and hiking gear.
- The delivery time is shown on each product page, since we bring some items in to order.
- The region of origin is usually in the product name; the “Farmers” section tells you about the producers.
- Questions: WhatsApp or Telegram, from 9:00 to 21:00.