Above you will find Big Picture Farm's open-source guide to sustainable packaging suppliers, with a focus on suppliers that cater to small and medium-sized producers (all the links to various suppliers are clickable as you scroll through!).

You can also download it here.

This guide grew out of our own endeavor to transform our entire packaging line to one that is free of virgin plastic and, moreover, is 100% zero-waste (either home compostable or curbside recyclable), thanks to a grant from the Dairy Business Innovation Center. We highlight the products and vendors we currently use as well as list as many alternative options as we could find in each category along the way. We consider this an evolving guide, and we will continue to update it as we discover additional suppliers-- new technologies are materializing in this field every day. (Please reach out to us with any additional suppliers you think we may have missed.) We hope this guide can help other small producers save some time in their own quest to innovate their packaging in an eco-conscious way. The more of us that do it, the better off the planet will be. And the greater the demand for these materials, the greater the supply will follow, and the more competitive the pricing will become.

As you find suppliers you like, check their websites and reach out to them directly with any inquiries. We do our best to keep this up-to-date, but if any info is out-of-date, don’t hesitate to let us know: bigpicturefarm@gmail.com

Also, we designed and created some logos after switching to various environmentally-friendly products that we thought we would make available for free to other processors. Please find those below. Click on them to download.