What we mean when we say ‘GREEN’.
Within our packaging you may have seen us use a number of icons or terms such as bio-degradable. We have chosen to use these words and definitions in order to communicate things that are important to us as individuals and as a business. They’re also at the heart of every decision we make when it comes to our products and production.
HAND-MADE:
All our Caley Brother kits and products are hand-made, by either ourselves or by a small team of people we choose to work with. Hand-made means making each and every kit by hand; from mixing and packaging the substrate, checking kits, products and produce daily, to packing, labeling and posting out the final items. This ensures you received the freshest products that in turn gives you the best results. However, when working with natural products there’s always a small chance that something could go wrong during transit - if you do find that one anomaly, make sure you get in tough so we can get it sorted for you.
SUSTAINABLE SOURCED:
Within our mushroom grow kits, our project kits, at our workshops or within our mushroom displays - we make sure all the materials we use have been sustainably sourced.
Most of our substrates consist of materials that are infact by-products from local industries. For example, our coffee grounds are locally sourced and collected from cafes within the village in which our mushroom farm is based. Our sawdust and logs come from our local sawmill, and the straw we use is grown, harvested and dried in the fields behind our flint barn.
This is important to us and one of the reasons why we started growing. Many mushrooms found in supermarkets are grown outside of the UK and travel many miles before reaching our plates.
RECYCLE & COMPOST:
We aim to recycled or composted as much of our waste as we can, and we have deliberately designed our ready to grow kits so you can too. From the used substrate from within your mushroom grow kits, your spent logs and mushrooms beds to the mycelium ornaments on your tree - they can all be put into your compost, buried in your garden or put out with the rest of your food waste. They’re all 100% bio-degradable and will decompose; feeding your worms and nurturing your soil.
Our packing is paper and card and can be recycled. And our plastic grow bags or dowel packaging can be recycled along with your soft plastic; like your bread bags at many of the larger supermarkets we have surrounding us. Leaving us with ZERO WATSE.
BIO-DEGRADABLE:
Bio-degradable is the perfect word for many of our mushroom growing projects and products, and the reason why it’s perfect is because once you’ve removed all the packaging whats left is 100% bio-degradable. Within the year there will be no visual trace of your kit, bauble, or used substrate - but out of sight, the mycelium lives on; nurturing your soil and feeding your plants.
ZERO WASTE:
This is our objective with every event we host or display we create. What ZERO WASTE means to us, is nothing to landfill. It’s also one of the questions we’re asked when we exhibiting at the RHS and Gardener’s World shows. We carefully design and curate our displays, so nothing goes to waste, this includes working with like-minded organisations and means sometimes we have to forgo some design ideas because they don’t meet this criteria. But it also means we’re able to donate many of our materials, such as our mosses, substrate and ornaments - allowing them to live on in someone else’s care.
If you have any questions about any of our products or processes feel free to drop us a message HERE.
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