When we decided to start a cheese company, we knew that we wanted to be a good earth-links who made fabulous cheese.

Here is our current earth-linking status:

    Efficient Production

We are currently producing 40% more cheese than this time last year using 3% less total utilities.

   Packaging

We redesigned our box in February 2008 to use 65% less material.

All of our packaging materials are made from recycled materials as well as being recyclable themselves.

We are currently checking into biodegradable cheese wrapping material. We hope to find a great solution by the time we buy foil again; March 2009 or so.

    Shipping Material Reduction 

NOTE: In October 2008 we achieved 90% return on the shipping materials

Our cheese has to stay cold; therefore we use a lot of insulation, cardboard and refrigeration gel packs to ship our cheese.
 
To do this we utilize a system we call SWEC to have our customers return these materials to us after the shipment is complete.
 
As of October 2008 this system saves over 100 pounds of shipping materials from the landfill every month.

   Food Recycling 

All the cheese that we don't sell due to a variety of reasons is donated to the local food bank.

(you know...sometimes we squash one, while it is still edible...it doesn't look so hot.)