New Yorker sends honey from 'heaven' to Shanghai

Among sweeping vistas of snow-capped mountains, virgin Himalayan forest and terraced meadows sits the office of Shangrila Farm, launched by New Yorker Sahra Malik and her sister Alia in 2008.

Set in the eponymous Tibetan hinterland of Southwest China's Yunnan province, it supplies organic food to cities, including Kuming, the provincial capital, and Shanghai.

Strictly speaking, it is not a farm. It has no land and buys produce from local farmers. But it is among the first such venture in China to form a domestic silk road of honey and other agricultural produce between the county-level city of Shangri-La, where the average annual income is under 2,000 yuan ($320), and Shanghai, where organic foods are in short supply.