Support Your Environment

As we care deeply about the local and global environment, wanting to ensure it remains both beautiful and viable to support diverse ecosystems and future generations of people like you, we are proud to recommend at-home sprouting as a direct means of supporting your environment. In many nations, modern food industries create a significant footprint, both in terms of greenhouse gases emitted through the growth, processing, and transport of goods, as well as the physical waste associated with packaging and its creation. Moreover, the purchasing habits of the modern consumer directly necessitate increased land use. This has led to untold deforestation in the last decade alone, releasing centuries of sequestered carbon through logging, dismantling habitats, and significantly impacting global biodiversity in the name of farming acreage. Sprouting can play a significant role in altering your habits as a modern consumer, reducing your personal carbon footprint and building habits to support a more sustainable future. Not only does sprouting at home encourage a reduction in meat consumption, one of the primary drivers of climate change, it decreases reliance on grocery store products and the need to drive to acquire them. Lessening one’s personal reliance on the grocery store both directly benefits your local environment through your actions and retracts your support of the transportation industries, monoculture farms and their practices (such as deforestation and rampant pesticide use), and can influence a nation’s reliance on these practices should enough people change their behavior (21). Sprouting can be the first step in fostering the change you wish to see in the world, and getting your friends and loved ones sprouting alongside you can have a cascading influence on your local environment!