Q: How much packing material do you buy each year?
A: None.
That's right! Since we began the online part of our wedding business over two years ago, we have never purchased packing materials (aside from tape and recyclable corrugated boxes). Every peanut, air pack and crumbled kraft paper that protected the thousands of items we've shipped was a re-use from our suppliers. We work with the beauty of nature every day, and we enjoy the open farmland, parks and forests so abundant in our area (one of us even holds a BS in Environmental Science from Allgheny College). The stems and leaves cut from our flowers have become mulch in our gardens, and we return the vast majority of shipping boxes back to our flower wholesalers. As we grow, we'll continue to find ways reduce, reuse and recycle so our arrangements aren't the only place you'll find nature's beauty.