We make our hemp wick with the environment and every living creature in mind. We pay close attention to our carbon output and do our best to offset our own footprint and then some. That shows up in the details: 100% post-consumer recycled paper for our labels, locally recycled packing paper, locally sourced beeswax, and support for hemp farming across the country. We don’t use any waste or byproducts, and we’re looking into solar ovens to melt our beeswax and fully offset our electricity use.
Made with bees, made with love
We support the honeybee any way we can. Simply buying our products helps local beekeepers keep their bee populations healthy. Honeybees are, frankly, one of the things standing between us and disaster; without them, crop production would collapse. We’re members of our local beekeeper’s association, and we strongly encourage you to join your local chapter too, even if you don’t own any bees yet.
There’s a bigger cycle at work here. Buying beeswax products keeps up the human demand that sustains our relationship with honeybees, not just for their honey and wax, but for their pollination. That partnership between people and bees is an ancient bond, and we hope it never breaks.
Reducing carbon footprints
Buying hemp supports a much larger picture. As a textile, hemp helps both the economy and the environment. It’s one of the strongest and longest-lasting natural fibers there is. According to the North American Industrial Hemp Council, hemp can yield 3 to 8 dry tons of fiber per acre, four times what an average forest yields. It has a very low environmental impact and can produce more fuel oil per acre than corn. It grows in a range of climates and needs far fewer pesticides than cotton or corn, if any at all. All of that makes it a genuinely valuable, low-impact textile. We only use fair-trade hemp, and we’re part of the National Hemp Association.
Growing hemp does double duty. Buying hemp products increases demand to plant more of it, and hemp doesn’t just pull carbon out of the atmosphere; it also absorbs toxic metals from the soil it grows in, the same way it was used at Chernobyl. Our all-natural hemp twine comes from California and isn’t blended or bound with anything. It’s 100% hemp fiber.
Local packaging
Our mailers are 100% compostable, minus the shipping label, and our packing is 100% post-consumer, locally recycled paper. We currently use a glassine (wood pulp) bag for the hemp wick, which keeps dust and gunk off the beeswax, preserves its freshness and scent, and adds a bit of water resistance. We hope you’ll reuse and recycle it. The bag works well for storing the hemp wick itself, or matches, tobacco, herbs, or even your daily vitamins.
Buy local, help local
When you buy our products, you’re helping your local economy. We support apiaries and beekeepers near you and try to keep our products built and maintained within your local economy. The money goes to the store you bought from, its employees, and the beekeepers nearby, and it tends to stay in your community, funding and growing it from within. That means more local business growth, more jobs, and more overall wealth for the people there. Every dollar spent at a small business returns about three times more to the local economy than a dollar spent at a big one, and small businesses are more likely to give back to local causes and organizations.
Take a look at our products, and please reach out if you have any suggestions for reducing our environmental impact and carbon footprint even further. We mean it.