We Know Cheese Doesn’t Grow on Trees
It's no surprise that the cheese we send out comes from the best farms - they care for their animals, they care for their land, they care for the environment and they create the wonderful cheese you receive in your boxes. We've done some looking in the mirror and challenged ourselves to do better - to improve the packaging so that it can be reused or recycled more widely, minimise our waste and offering the potential to offset carbon emissions on deliveries. This is just the start of our sustainability journey and there is much more to come.
Carbon Offsetting
Our geeks have been busy calculating the carbon cost and undergoing a carbon audit of cheesegeek, from production of the cheese all the way to our recklessly good-looking boxes arriving at your door. As we grow, this cost will rise which is why we're putting in place new processes and offsetting measures now which will carry through to a more sustainable future. We now offer the chance for our customers to offset delivery and with the take up we have had, we are now the world's first carbon negative cheesemonger! Our business is now 217,208kg in the green! That's equivalent to 241 flights, 9,976 mature trees being planted or 528,487 car miles.
9,976
Trees
241
Flights
528,487
Car Miles
671
Annual Commutes
Regenerative
Farming
The dairy industry as a whole has been taking a look at itself and its practices in recent years. Economic pressures had been encouraging farms to get bigger and bigger without any thought of the environment we're all so reliant on. In fact, 13 farms in the UK emit more pollution than all of the others combined! Much of this has been brought to light by pro-vegan campaigns such as "Dairy is Scary" (although we'd alter that slightly though, to "Big Dairy is Scary"). It makes you think twice about supermarket own brand dairy and cheese produce. Enter the rise of sustainable regenerative farming. We work with makers who are committed to sustainability and giving back to the land they use
Happy Cows (or sheep, goats... buffalo)
We work with makers who are committed to giving back to the land they use. The biggest polluters in dairy farming are the animals themselves. With reforestation projects of the planting of nitrates and shrubbery plus the correct removal of waste, many of our cheesemakers will be carbon neutral in the very near future. How many industries can make that claim?
Packaging of the future
Whilst we are official cheese heads here at Geek HQ, coming in a close second is our rather mysterious love of packaging and insulation.
We have big plans to get artisan cheese to everyone, which ultimately means more and more boxes heading out across the land - from the outset, we’ve worked tirelessly to ensure that this packaging is sustainably sourced, easily recyclable, reusable and biodegradable. Get it right now and we’ll be able to stay in control of our footprint in the future. We’re always challenging ourselves to eliminate waste and stay ahead of the game in terms of the materials that we use.
Packaging of the future
