NO PLASTIC.  NO STYROFOAM.  We’ve made every effort to use GREEN supplies as much as possible.  As you sample our ice cream, notice that we use old-fashioned wooden taster spoons.  When you order, your bowls are grass pulp; your napkins are unbleached recycled-paper; and your plastic spoons and knives aren’t plastic – they’re made from GMO-free potato starch!  Even the milkshake straws are paper, not plastic, and every other serving container is paper, too.

We use 100% renewable power for electricity, from Green Mountain Energy and Pacific Power (we also have it at home.) This combination of wind and geothermal power costs more, but we feel it’s worth it for the environment and our future.

We select commercial equipment with the Energy Star label. Energy Star qualified refrigerators must be at least 10% more efficient than the regular minimum standard.  These refrigerators cost more than non-Star brands, but use 1/3 less energy to operate!

Making our own ice cream resulted in a savings of ½ ton of plastic ice cream buckets and lids every year that were produced for our purchases alone (we were only one customer!), and since the Tillamook creamery didn’t recycle them, we did.  We reuse the plastic ice cream tubs we have.

We recycle pretty much everything - cardboard, greyboard, paper, foil, tin cans…and the napkins, paper towels, and toilet paper here were all made from recycled paper.  

WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO RECYCLE YOUR CANS, BOTTLES, MAGAZINES, AND NEWSPAPERS WHILE YOU ARE AT OUR STORE IN OUR RECYCLING CAN.