Herb’n Organics is on the threshold of a really big step! We’ve been handcrafting our wonderful all natural products in the back house on our property…a true cottage industry. We even call the little house “The Peppermint Palace”, and it’s been wonderful! We’ve been mixing our ingredients and pouring into bottles in the kitchen, labeling our bottles in the living room and keeping our shipping supplies in the bedroom. And it’s worked out well for the past 2 years.

Now we find ourselves feeling crowded and seriously short of storage space for the increases in production that we’ve been experiencing. Shipping has increased to such an extent that we find ourselves spending a lot of time searching for recyclable boxes and packing material.

We started looking around for a green company that could help us warehouse and ship our products and almost immediately found a wonderful locally-owned company that specializes in ‘green’ services. I had been driving by their site regularly and kept seeing their trucks and was very curious about their business. Then one day a member of their team contacted us. ‘Go Green Direct Delivery Company’ is a scant 4 blocks from “The Palace” (small carbon footprint) and not only will they warehouse for us, they will ship our internet orders AND deliver to bricks and mortar locations using a fleet of hybrid trucks!

As we began discussing possibilities with the mother-daughter team who run ‘Go Green Direct’, we discovered that they specialize in using recycled boxes and materials for shipping, too! Go Green!! And since our products do not require refrigeration, warehousing with them seemed financially feasible.

Discussions stretched across the months, and as we debated the advantages and challenges, it became apparent that we also needed to find a company that could bottle in greater volume for us and that company needed to be chemical-free as well, no toxic materials or chemicals on site. We began searching a year ago and were still looking when Go Green Direct purchased the bottling facility 2 doors south of their location just a couple of months ago! How great is that! And the facility they bought has never bottled toxins or dangerous chemicals.

So here comes the big step! We’re moving production and warehousing to their facility and over the next 4 to 6 months, we plan to move manufacturing and shipping 4 blocks south and devote our energies to developing new products and expanding our marketing area.

It’s a huge step in these economic times, but if we don’t make the move, Herb’N Organics won’t be able to grow. We truly believe that our products are amazing and we want to get them out there and into more and more homes, displacing toxic and hazardous commercial products that threaten children, chemically sensitive adults and pets. So here we go!!

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