Helping Eateries Provide Sustainably Grown Ingredients

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COMPETITVE EDGE - Offering and promoting sustainably grown ingredients on your menu can help attract and retain loyal customers.  Whether or not a consumer is seeking restaurants that offer local, seasonal, or organic ingredients, by offering foods that form connections between the grower and the consumer, you show your patrons that you care about environmental and social issues in the food system.  These values can be translated through consumer messaging on menus, in social media campaigns, and through other advertising sources.

Trees, Bees, and Peas will help you source new and evaluate current producers to ensure farms and ranches are growing and processing foods ethically and sustainably. This includes adhering to the three pillars of sustainability including social, economic and environmental principles.  Restaurants can choose to focus on one or all three guiding principles.

BENEFITS OF A SUSTAINABLE FOCUSED MENU

• Support the mission to source many of your menu items from local farmers, ranchers, dairies and food artisans

• Provide farm to table themed meals  

• Promote local, seasonal ingredients from producers who follow ethically responsible production methods      

• Utilize ingredients that are grown without the use of farming chemicals   

• Strive to seek producers that humanely raise livestock

SERVICES PROVIDED - customized based on your company’s philosophy and needs. We help optimize a menu item's nutrition, develop and enhance environmental stewardship goals, and address social responsibility concerns within the foodservice industry and the culinary profession. It may include evaluating whether a producer/farm practices such operations including:

• Minimizing and/or avoiding soil, water, and air pollution and degradation, which may include the use of pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides on crops.        

• Maintaining and replenishing long-term soil health, fertility, and productivity.       

• Maintaining or enhancing biodiversity and supporting habitats within the operation and its surroundings. 

• Conducting best practices that aim to reduce, avoid, offset, and/or sequester greenhouse gas emissions.

• Evaluating proper production methods that will provide safe products to the marketplace. This can be done by ensuring producers are meeting local government and food safety regulations and maintain proper certifications and licensing.       

• Providing assistance in obtaining the appropriate sustainability food certifications, including providing details regarding the purpose and benefits of the certifications.