Flora Foods Company

Flora Foods Company: Plant-Based Weekly Food Box Subscription

At Flora Foods Company, plant-based eating is accessible, sustainable, and easy for everyone. Flora Foods values health, sustainability, connection and wants to leave the world a better place one healthy meal delivery at a time! If you’re looking for ways to reduce your impact on the world but are overwhelmed with where to start; Flora Food offers zero-waste solutions for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and more!

Why do you want to work with TreeEra to plant trees? How does tree planting support your business’s mission?

Plant-Based Pad Thai

We want to work with TreeEra to be even more sustainable. As a zero-waste meal delivery company, we are very aware of the impact our day-to-day business can have on our carbon footprint. Being able to offset the emissions our deliveries cause makes us confident that our zero-waste mission is even more impactful, to us, and our customers. Planting one tree for every order placed at Flora Foods Co. inches us closer to our goal of being a business that makes a difference and changes the status quo of what a socially aware meal delivery company can be.

How is Flora Foods different than the other leading meal delivery services?

Flora Foods is zero-waste! Simply order online, let professional chef, Susan Hoy, cook your plant-based meals made with locally sourced, fresh ingredients, and your ready-to-eat meals with be delivered right to your door in reusable containers. Your dishes from the previous week will be picked up and reused so Flora Foods can continue to be sustainable and zero-waste.

Plant-Based Burrito Bowl in Reusable Glass Containers

What other businesses do you think are doing well in the environmental space?

Patagonia. They try to be as eco-friendly as possible and are seemingly upfront about their missteps and areas where they need to clean up their act. Yeah, they use oil-based products to produce their clothing but they are honest about finding a solution and continually improving. We appreciate how they strive for progress and are not hung up on doing everything perfectly.

What does affecting climate change mean to your business?

It means that anything is possible. The meal delivery industry is one of the biggest contributors to single-use product waste. If we can take steps in the right direction and bring a profitable business model to the market, then anyone can do something to reduce their carbon footprint and improve the world as a whole! #BecauseTheWorldIsntSingleUse🌎

Do you have any other tips on how to incorporate sustainability into one’s everyday life?

Plant-Based Beet Poke Bowl

We encourage people to look at the mundane and everyday areas of their life. It’s more than opting for paper over plastic bags at the checkout.

The most obvious, being a plant-based meal delivery company is to incorporate more plant-based meals into your week. Adding just one plant-based meal and skipping the animal-derived products can cut your greenhouse gas emissions in half! (Scarborough, P., Appleby, P.N., Mizdrak, A. et al. Dietary greenhouse gas emissions of meat-eaters, fish-eaters, vegetarians and vegans in the UK. Climatic Change 125, 179–192 (2014))

Beyond eating and food, we want people to take a moment and think about items they use every day that may have a more sustainable solution. Choose wooden matches over a disposable lighter, opt for paper-based party decorations instead of plastic or resin, consider purchasing clay pots for your houseplants. There are so many ways you can make a hugely positive impact on our environment by shifting our thinking around what sustainability is.