We walk the talk! Earth Day Every Day when we Bake!
***Happy Earth Day***
As the mom of two young daughter's I'm at fear for what we are doing to our planet. Sometimes it feels overwhelming and hopeless. We have decided to do everything we can as a small bakery to help us stay on the right path. When you deal with bread it is very challenging to find sustainable and affordable packaging solutions. Here are some things that we do for our children, for our customers and for our beloved Earth!
Sustainability while Baking
Whenever we can buy organic ingredients that are also gluten-free we do so. Our Nordic Keto Buns, Nordic Paleo Buns, and Rustic Bread all contain mostly organic ingredients.
We use compostable baking sheets and ensure that we recycle and compost everything possible at the kitchen. Soft plastic that can't go into single stream we take with us home in order to recycle through CHARM or through TerraCycle. We are extremely mindful when it comes to using plastic gloves when baking. We do it only when absolutely necessary to meet health code requirements.
We choose bulk flour that comes in recyclable bags whenever possible. If the bags have a plastic inner bag or liner we remove it and bring it to recycling. We love Nude Foods' efforts in partnering with TerraCycle to recycle.
2. Packaging
Instead of putting our bread in plastic bags, which is clearly the easiest and cheapest option, we have gone at length to only use recyclable/compostable bags and labels! Did you know that your normal labels generally can't be recycled or composted? Our Mini Power Muffins come in compostable muffin forms. We are continuously working on finding even better packaging solutions. If anyone has packaging suggestions or wants to volunteer in this process to help us find even better options please let us know!
3. Sustainability at Farmer's Market
We are at Boulder's Farmer's Market this Saturday, Longmont next week. We source local and organic as much as possible. We use compostable/recyclable tissue paper, compostable baking paper to wrap bread, compostable labels and bags for our bake-at-home bread-mixes.
4. Partnering with our amazing customers and restaurants
We bring our bread in food grade plastic containers lined with compostable sheet papers to our dedicated partners Alpine Modern, Black Cat, Bramble & Hare, Boulder County Farmer's Market, Fresh Thymes Market Place, Tables Restaurant and Yellow Belly. We then swap out the empty containers with new ones at next delivery. Please let them know that you value their efforts in reducing waste!
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING US ON OUR JOURNEY TO BE AN ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS BUSINESS!