Riverford Organic Farmers Ltd

Introduction

We want to do better than vague claims of social responsibility and greenwash so we try to make informed decisions about the important issues affecting us and our environment....
Growing, packing and delivering your food puts us in a unique position to use as little packaging as possible. From using 82% less plastic than supermarkets, to reusing our veg boxes up to 10 times, we’re constantly working to minimise waste. By December 2020, our fruit and veg will be 100% plastic free.

Guy crafted this statement over the course of a year, with lots of input from Riverford staff. It has guided the drafting of legal documents in our transfer to employee ownership, and will be used in years to come to question if our actions are consistent with our professed values – ensuring that those values are protected for the long term.

Self-confessed veg nerd, Guy Singh-Watson has over the last 30 years taken Riverford from one man and a wheelbarrow delivering homegrown organic veg to friends, to a national veg box scheme delivering to around 50,000 customers a week.