2025 Impact Report

Where Our Emissions Come From

We are a small-batch specialty food producer operating at a micro-production scale, and we have not yet completed a formal greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory. We do, however, understand where our footprint concentrates, and we have built this plan around those sources rather than around new data-collection projects:

• Heating oil used to heat our production space (our largest direct emissions source).
• Electricity used for cooking, refrigeration, lighting, and packing.
• Purchased ingredients and packaging — the farming, processing, and transport of what we buy (glass jars and bottles, shipping materials, and food ingredients).
• Distribution and shipping — regional delivery through our distributor and national parcel shipments to customers.

Our two largest sources — heating oil and electricity — are already recorded on the utility and fuel bills we receive, so we can track them without any new logging system.

Measure & Improve

We have set the following SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound) targets and committed to measuring and reporting against them every year:

• Establish an energy baseline: By the end of 2027, we will compile a full 12 months of heating oil (gallons) and electricity (kWh) from the bills and statements we already receive. This will act as our energy baseline, which we can set annual improvement targets against — using existing records rather than manual on-site tracking.
• Take concrete reduction actions: Beginning in 2026 and continuing through 2028, we will implement the following actions to reduce energy use in our production space:Convert production-area lighting to LED.Consolidate cooking and processing into fuller batches to reduce oven and cooktop heat-up cycles and overall runtime.Service and optimize refrigeration for efficiency, and address any heating inefficiencies in the production space.Right-size shipping boxes and prioritize recyclable, curbside-friendly packaging to cut waste and shipping weight.Continue and expand local and regional ingredient sourcing to reduce upstream transportation emissions.Explore a renewable electricity option (such as a Maine community solar program) for our production space.
• Set improvement targets: At the beginning of 2028, once our energy baseline is compiled, we will set specific energy-reduction improvement target(s) and designate appropriate resources to achieve them.

Resources

To make these targets happen, we have allocated the following resources:

• People: Jordene Trueh (Owner) has approved this plan, provides oversight of its targets, and measures the company's progress as part of annual review. Where needed, we will engage third-party experts to advise us on environmental topics and best practices.
• Technology: We will pull our energy data directly from existing utility and fuel bills and record it in our Airtable operations hub. No new tracking tool is required to maintain the baseline.
• Infrastructure: Our energy baseline relies on records we already receive, so it needs no new equipment. Our infrastructure investment is in the reduction actions themselves — LED lighting, refrigeration servicing, and efficiency improvements to the production space.

Roadmap & Review

This action plan will serve as our climate roadmap for the next three years, until it is updated with new objectives. If our progress moves faster than expected, we will update this plan at a closer date. As our capacity grows, we intend to move from tracking energy toward a fuller estimate of our emissions, including ingredients, packaging, and shipping.