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rePurpose Global is committed to tackling the plastic pollution crisis head-on by offering sustainable, eco-friendly alternatives and actively working towards a plastic-neutral future. Together, we are committed to making a tangible difference in protecting our planet and creating a more sustainable future. In this blog post, we will explore the collaboration between Farrington Oils and Repurpose Global, whilst highlighting the shared values and the transformative impact we have achieved in 2022.
Plastic Waste
Global plastic waste production has reached over 400 million tonnes annually. Just 9% of this will be recycled. Most of it will find its way into landfills or leak into nature, creating havoc across coastlines and fragile ecosystems.
Overall, rePurpose Global, has been able to recover a huge 8,845 tonnes of plastic from nature across 6 countries as of December 2022 – That’s about the weight of 491 Million plastic bottles! Of the 8,845 tonnes of plastic, a massive 862 tonnes of plastic was recovered at Project Neela Sagar alone.
Project Neela Sagar
Through Project Neela Sagar, rePurpose Global endeavours to recover over 9,000 tonnes of low-value plastic waste by 2030, while positively impacting the lives of 1,000+ informal waste collectors.
Farrington Oils and rePurpose Global understand the significance of industry leadership in driving sustainable change. By working together, we aim to inspire other businesses within the farming sector to adopt eco-friendly practices. We are deeply committed to sustainability, and our mission is to gradually reduce our plastic footprint year on year.
Becoming Plastic Neutral
You can read how we firstly became Plastic Neutral and the work we have been doing with rePurpose in a previous blog post – simply click here.
If you would like to work out your own plastic footprint, rePurpose have a simple calculator for you here and even have options for individuals to offset their personal footprints and become plastic neutral.
Sources: rePurpose, Neela Sagar 2022 report.
At Farrington Oils, we believe in making a positive impact on the world around us. This year, we are proud to announce our chosen charity, Toilet Twinning, as part of our commitment to improving sanitation and transforming lives. Toilet Twinning is an inspiring organisation dedicated to addressing the global sanitation crisis by providing access to clean and safe toilets for those in need. In this blog post, we will delve into the vital work of Toilet Twinning, the impact it has on communities, and how you can get involved to help make a difference.
We have proudly twinned all 3 toilets available at Farrington Oils HQ with the following…
Uganda, Rubaya, Kabale District
Kenya, Bamba
Ethiopia, Begedamo Geteme, Doyogena
Why Toilet Twinning?
The underlying principle of Toilet Twinning is to raise awareness about the global sanitation crisis and engage individuals and communities in taking practical steps towards addressing it. Through their website, people can “twin” their toilets by making a donation, which goes directly towards funding the building and maintenance of latrines in areas where they are desperately needed. Toilet Twinning funds global water and sanitation programmes run by Tearfund.
One of the remarkable aspects of Toilet Twinning is the personal connection it creates between donors and the communities they are supporting. After twinning their toilet, individuals receive a certificate that displays the GPS coordinates of the latrine block they are supporting, along with a photograph and information about the location. This tangible connection helps donors understand the impact of their contribution and the transformative effect it can have on people’s lives.
Tearfund’s partners work alongside communities, bringing people together in workshops and action groups focused on issues that concern them – such as farming. You can view their most recent report here.
The Impact of Toilet Twinning:
The work of Toilet Twinning extends beyond just providing toilets. They also emphasise the importance of proper hygiene practices and provide education and training to communities on sanitation and health-related issues. By taking a holistic approach, the organisation aims to improve overall health, reduce the spread of diseases, and empower communities to break free from the cycle of poverty and illness.
Toilet Twinning mission aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations, specifically Goal 6, which focuses on ensuring access to clean water and sanitation for all. By supporting the organisation’s efforts, individuals and organisations contribute to global efforts to achieve this crucial goal, making a tangible and lasting difference in the lives of vulnerable communities.
How You Can Make a Difference:
We encourage everyone to join us in supporting Toilet Twinning.
Every pound counts and goes directly towards building toilets, providing hygiene education, and supporting ongoing projects. Your generosity can transform lives and communities.
Toilet Twinning is a unique and innovative initiative that combines awareness-raising, fundraising, and community engagement to address the global sanitation crisis. By twinning toilets, individuals and organisations play a vital role in improving hygiene conditions, promoting health, and empowering communities in need. Through their work, they exemplify the power of collective action and individual contributions in creating a world where everyone has access to safe and dignified sanitation facilities.
Our Support
At Farrington Oils we are excited to support Toilet Twinning and contribute to their mission of improving sanitation worldwide. Together, we can help break the cycle of poverty, improve health outcomes, and empower communities to thrive. Let’s unite and make a difference by providing clean and safe toilets to those in need. Join us in supporting Toilet Twinning and be a part of this transformative journey. Together, we can create a world where everyone has access to basic sanitation and the opportunity to lead a healthier, more dignified life.
Images sourced from toilettwinning.org
If you’ve used Mellow Yellow Cold Pressed Rapeseed Oil for deep frying, follow our tips on what to do with oil after deep frying…
Reuse
As Mellow Yellow Rapeseed Oil has a high smoke point, you can reuse this oil after deep frying. Once you have used your oil for deep frying, leave it to cool down. Once it is completely cool, pour it through a muslin cloth, coffee filter paper or kitchen roll into a glass bottle or jar that can be sealed. Label the jar with the date you used it for deep frying, what you used it for and the best before date. Store your oil in a cool, dark place and use within six weeks. It is best to use the oil for deep frying similar foods in case any flavour has been imparted into the oil.
Recycle
Containers of cooking oil can be recycled by some local recycling centres. Check with your local council to see if they offer this service and then take it to the recycling centre in a sealed bottle or jar.
Dispose
If you need to dispose of your oil, you could put a few sheets of something absorbent, eg, kitchen roll or newspaper into your bin and then pour the oil onto this. The oil should then be absorbed and won’t make a mess in your bin. If you don’t have anything absorbent to pour the oil onto, you can wait until it has cooled down and then pour it either back into the bottle or into a glass jar with a lid and place in your rubbish bin.
What not to do with oil after deep frying
– Touch too soon – Make sure to leave to cool fully, oil gets VERY hot, so make sure it has had plenty of time to cool down before you touch it.
– Put on the compost heap – Pouring leftover cooking oil onto your compost heap can attract rodents and slow down the composting process.
– Pour down the sink – Never pour leftover oil down your sink as it will eventually blog the pipes and contributes to larger drainage problems.
Together we can go far.
Occasionally in life we meet people that inspire us, they help shape the way we think, evolve our attitudes and influence our approach to how we live our lives. It could be an enthusiastic teacher at school inspiring one to see the beauty in trigonometry or getting that little bit extra out of you on the sports field; an elder family relation full of wisdom and the fun in sharing their knowledge with the younger generation; a work colleague happy to spend time mentoring you in your professional progression. One such person who has certainly influenced and inspired me over the years was Caroline Drummond MBE, Chief Executive of LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming) for over thirty years.
I first joined LEAF on leaving university in 1993, full of excitement to join the industry I was proud to grow up in, but at the same time I was aware that agriculture was often in the press for the wrong reasons, mostly unfairly, but occasionally I could see how farmers and the farming industry perhaps deserved some of the criticism for poor practices. I felt we could do better.
Sustainable, environmentally conscious food production
LEAFwas young, keen, full of passion and energy too, led by Caroline who I came to know very well and enjoyed working with over the years; she became a good friend as well as a great mentor. LEAF was the brainchild of Norfolk farmer and journalist, David Richardson and a small group of industry figures from a diverse range of organisations. They could see that farming would benefit from a system to help farmers produce healthy food in a more sustainable, environmentally conscious way and, importantly, to go out and tell the general public, our customers what great work we were doing. Caroline was the first employee of LEAF, leading the organisation since its inception in 1991 until her passing in May 2022. She had a great skill for making contacts far and wide, her contacts book was second to none. She has been instrumental in ‘Linking’ people from different sectors together for the collective good. Researchers, farmers, policy makers, NGOs, politicians, retailers, nutritionists, teachers and consumers. Caroline had a great skill bringing us all together, empowering us to find common ground, leading to shared solutions.
Demonstrating our environmental credentials through LEAF
As a farmer, I learnt how to farm better through the annual LEAF Sustainable Farming Review, I learnt how to interact with the general public better through the Speak Out communications initiative, before proudly becoming a LEAF Demonstration Farm in 2003. When I launched Farrington’s Mellow Yellow®, the LEAF Marque offered me a powerful tool to help me demonstrate the sustainable credentials of our products with a credibility that retailers trust, and customers are looking for in the food choices they make. Behind all these initiatives, Caroline’s driving force, passion and positive attitude to make things happen was ever present. Caroline remarked to me once: “LEAF gave me wings,” but in reality I believe it was Caroline who gave me and so many others belief in our abilities and the confidence to fly high.
Doing things better. Continually improving.
Thirty one years after LEAF started, the perception and trust of agriculture and farmers to the wider public has improved beyond all recognition from when I first joined. Farmers are doing things better and we should be proud of our achievements. LEAF farmers are growing their crops in a more sustainable manner through regenerative farming methods; raising livestock with animal welfare standards recognised globally as the benchmark for others to aim for; creating more diverse biodiversity and wildlife habitats around our farms; welcoming the general public onto our farms so they can engage with how their food is produced through LEAF Open Farm Sunday. It is because of LEAF and Caroline’s zeal to do things better, that we know farming and taking care of the environment is not only possible, it’s the only way to farm in the long term.
Caroline loved her quotes, two of which I would like to share here. “If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far go together.” Working with others and especially those we don’t always share the same views with, means we can all go far. Secondly, “When all is said and done, there is often more said than done.” Caroline was the complete antithesis of this, she achieved so much to be proud of and started something very special. It is now time for all of us to continue her great legacy.
A lasting legacy
In memory of Caroline, LEAF have launched the The Sustainability Innovation Award, to inspire others to continue her journey, maintain the momentum she has generated and advance more sustainable farming solutions.
Through a dedicated Memorial Trust, the award will be made annually to an individual or organisation working to deliver innovative climate positive actions, build resilience in our food production systems or in some way, supports the health, diversity and enrichment of food, farms, the environment, and society.
At Farrington’s Mellow Yellow and for me personally, we think this is an excellent cause in memory of someone I was so proud to know and work with; Caroline was my environmental conscience for more than 25 years. LEAF’s Sustainability Innovation Award, set up in her memory will ensure her legacy continues through travel and discovery, research or engagement. It will help drive the pursuit of new and innovative environmental solutions that our planet and society so desperately needs.
We are very proud to support the award and all its endeavours.
If you would like to contribute to the Caroline Drummond Memorial Trust Fund, please contact LEAF.
– Duncan Farrington
Success at Great Taste Awards 2022!
We are incredibly proud of our range of sustainable products! In total we have won FOUR stars across 3 products at the 2022 Great Taste Awards for our Farrington’s Mellow Yellow products this year. The judges have awarded an incredible 2 stars Great Taste award to our versatile Cold Pressed Rapeseed Oil! For most products, this is their second, or even third Great Taste award but for our Smoked Oil, this is the first time it has been awarded a Great Taste star and we couldn’t be happier!
The Great Taste awards are the world’s largest and most trusted food and drink awards, with a panel of over 500 experts judging each product, being described as the ‘Oscars of the food world’. This year, 12,366 food and drink products entered into these prestigious awards, with only the very best products being awarded the coveted stars.
Here’s what the judges had to say about our products:
Cold Pressed Rapeseed Oil – 2 stars: Liquid Gold! A pleasingly golden oil, lightly aromatic, clean and fresh, nutty with light brassica notes. The texture was rich and smooth. The flavour although subtle, was wonderfully nutty and buttery. Very well done.
Honey & Mustard Dressing – 1 star: Glistening dressing with mustard seeds evident and glorious wafts of rapeseed oil. We loved the nutty rich flavour from the oil and thought the sweetness of the honey balanced so well with the bright acidity. Tastes fresh and home made.
Oak Smoked Rapeseed Oil – 1 star: Delicious oil well crafted and produced. This beautiful clear, golden oil almost glistens in the glass. There is a smoky, herbaceous aroma. On tasting it is clean and creamy so it fills the mouth and the gentle smokiness comes through very well and lingers on the finish.
We’re so proud of all our brilliant products, so if you haven’t tried them all, head over to our Where to Buy page and find your local stockist!
We have always firmly believed that a hard day’s work deserves a fair day’s pay. Our team works incredibly hard to produce our Mellow Yellow products to the highest quality, working with expensive equipment and requiring many skills to get the job done. Because of this, we have always paid above the minimum wage and now we are very proud to announce that we have now been certified as a Living Wage Employer!
What is a Living Wage Employer?
In the UK, the National Minimum Wage applies to all those under 23 years of age, and then the National Living Wage applies to all those above 23 years of age. However, this National Living Wage does not take into account the actual, real-world cost of living. So that is where the Living Wage Foundation steps in and each year they calculate the real Living Wage, based on rent, bills, etc.
It applies to all workers over 18, recognising that young people have the same living costs as everyone else. There is also a higher rate for London which takes into account the higher living costs in the capital.
The real Living Wage is independently calculated based on a public consultation method called Minimum Income Standard (MIS). MIS identifies what people need to be able to afford as a minimum. This is fed into a calculation of what someone needs to earn as a full-time salary, which is then converted to an hourly rate.
Why pay the Living Wage?
We firmly believe that all employees deserve a wage which meets everyday needs – like the weekly shop, the electricity bill or a surprise trip to the dentist.
The past year’s pandemic has affected us all, but the poorest have been hit hardest. Two thirds of those earning below the Living Wage saw their pay fall last year, with devastating effects. More than a quarter of those earning below the real Living Wage were forced to regularly skip meals, while nearly half saw a negative impact on their levels of anxiety. Despite the pandemic shining a spotlight on the importance of low paid workers, over 5.5 million continue to earn less than the Living Wage, that’s 20.3% of all workers in the UK not earning a real Living Wage.
93% of university graduates want to work for a Living Wage Employer
93% of the Living Wage network say it has benefitted their business
90% of consumers agree that pay should reflect living costs
85% of Living Wage Employers said it has enhanced their reputation as an employer
We are so proud to be a Living Wage Employer, showing our commitment to our employees and our belief that you should be able to earn a wage you can live on.
Who else pays the Living Wage?
The real Living Wage is the only UK wage rate that is voluntarily paid by over 8,000 UK businesses, from major UK corporations to small and medium businesses like us!
You can find Living Wage Employers near you with this map: https://www.livingwage.org.uk/living-wage-map
Learn more about the real Living Wage here: https://www.livingwage.org.uk/
Around the edges of our fields, there’s something really special; wildflowers. In these wildflower meadow margins, as they are known, we have a huge variety of different plant species, insects and birds, improving biodiversity and creating wildlife habitats. In the summer months, these wildflower meadow margins come alive with the buzzing and fluttering of bees, butterflies and many other insects.
As well as providing habitats for insects and improving biodiversity, our wildflowers also help us out on the farm. The wildflowers attract pollinators, which are essential for crop pollination, plus the insects in the wildflowers act as a natural pest control on our crops.
Did you know that you can bring wildflowers into your own garden too? Set aside an area of lawn, part of a border, or if you are limited on space, a large container will do! Either stop mowing a patch of your lawn to encourage long grass to grow for insects to thrive in, provide shelter for small mammals and create feeding opportunities for birds. Or if you’d rather start from scratch, pick a spot of bare, unproductive soil and sow a wildflower seed mix in autumn, or spring if you have a heavy clay soil, rake the seeds, water thoroughly and wait for a beautiful patch of wildflowers to appear come summer.
Here we have just some of the wildflowers growing in our wildflower meadow margins:
Oxeye Daisies
These are native daisies but are bigger and taller than the standard daisies you may see in your lawn. The yellow coloured centre of the oxeye daisy is packed full of pollen and nectar and attracts various pollinating insects such as butterflies, bees and hoverflies.
The heads of these plants can also be used to make chamomile tea.
Buttercups
The pretty yellow flowers are buttercups, they are very common in Britain thanks to our moist soils. They flower from May to August and attract flies, beetles and bees including honeybees.
Clover
We have two types of clover growing: white clover and red clover. These are both very common in the UK and are typically found in meadows, lawns and roadsides. These clovers attract all kinds of bumblebees, and the white clover is particularly loved by the Common Blue butterfly. This lucky wildflower sometimes produces four-leaf clovers, so keep an eye out for one of these!
Common Knapweed
This purple flower looks very much like a thistle and is very common in our wildflower meadow margins. A favourite with butterflies, these flowers are often surrounded by Cabbage Whites and Meadow Browns!
Tufted Vetch
These pretty violet flowers are a member of the pea family and flower from June to September. Also known as ‘cow vetch’ or ‘bird vetch’, it can be found in woodlands, grassland, and even coastal areas. When the seed pods are ripe, they turn black and have a similar shape to peapods.
Sorrel
Commonly found in grasslands, woodland edges and roadside verges, as well as wildflower meadows, this delicate flower adds a sprinkling of bright crimson and pink throughout the green grasses. The arrow shaped leaves have a particularly tart taste, giving this plant its nickname of ‘sour ducks’.
Cow Parsley
With umbrella-like clusters of white, frothy flowers, cow parsley grows very quickly in the summer before dying back. With large, flat umbrellas of small, white flowers and large, fern-like leaves, cow parsley stands out in a wildflower meadow. If you crush the leaves between your fingers, it will give out a very strong, aniseed scent.
Wild Carrot
Similar to cow parsley, wild carrot has umbrella-shaped flower heads, which start out red and bloom into white flowers from June to September. The leaves and roots of wild carrot smell just like the carrots we cook in our kitchens, but the roots do not form the big, orange vegetable we are familiar with. This plant particularly like chalky soils.
We are absolutely delighted to announce that we have won a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Sustainable Development! Farrington’s Mellow Yellow is one of 205 organisations nationally to be granted an esteemed Queen’s Award for Enterprise in 2021 and one of only 17 to be recognised for our excellence in sustainable development.
We have been awarded a Queen’s Award for our industry leading approach to sustainability: from our commitment to carbon and plastic neutrality, to our LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming) Marque standards, to Duncan’s work monitoring and increasing the carbon stored in our soils.
“Winning a Queen’s Award for Enterprise is a huge honour, and being awarded it for sustainable development in particular is a real testament to our commitment to the environment! Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do and I am so proud to be recognised for our decades of hard work and dedication in this area.
Now more than ever, we all need to put our planet first, working towards a more sustainable future. I hope that seeing a small company from a village in Northamptonshire win such a prestigious award will encourage other small and medium sized businesses to take the next step in their sustainability journey, so we can all do our bit for the planet.”
– Duncan Farrington
Now in its 55th year, the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are the most prestigious business awards in the country. Following on from our award win, we will be continuing our sustainability work with Duncan involved in an EU funded project called AgricaptureCO2 working towards creating a globally recognised standard for measuring soil carbon content.
Learn more about how we look after the environment…
Carbon Neutral
We have measured, reduced and offset all of our carbon emissions and achieved the Carbon Neutral Gold Standard from the United Nations. We are also signatories of the United Nations Climate Neutral Now Initiative.
After reducing our carbon emissions through LEAF farming strategies, we offset our remaining carbon emissions by supporting reforestation initiatives and green energy schemes. This means that Farrington’s Mellow Yellow is not adding any emissions to our atmosphere.
Plastic Neutral
We have partnered with rePurpose Global, and we now fund the removal of the same amount of plastic from the environment as we use in all of our packaging.
This means that for every 1 kg of plastic in Farrington’s Mellow Yellow packaging, we fund the removal & recycling of 1 kg of plastic that would otherwise have been landfilled, flushed into our oceans or littered our environment.
LEAF Marque
We are a LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming) Marque producer, this means we are at the forefront of environmentally aware agriculture.
LEAF encourages sustainable and environmentally responsible farming through a system called Integrated Farm Management. In simple terms, this means they encourage farmers to look at each part of their farm individually and ensure the whole farming process is environmentally sustainable.
Soil Carbon Sequestration
Soil is a brilliantly effective carbon store. The world’s soils actually hold more than three times the amount of carbon than is in the atmosphere!
The process of soil storing carbon is called carbon sequestration and through our sustainable farming, we are storing a huge amount of carbon in our soils, stopping it being released into our atmosphere.
Solar Panels
We have installed solar panels on our barn roofs so that the power of the sun not only helps grow our crops, but now also helps power our oil presses.
Our solar panels can be found on two barn roofs, which are generating over half the total electricity we use at Bottom Farm in a completely renewable and environmentally friendly way!
Tree Planting
Trees are fantastic for absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, providing shelter and homes for birds, insects and small mammals, and helping to reduce flooding and soil erosion.
Over the years, Duncan & his father have planted thousands of trees on our farm and last year we held a community tree planting event, getting a further 100 trees in the ground! Read more here.
This year has been hard for everyone in many different ways, so as a business we have tried to help out charities, giving back wherever we can. All of these charities are doing fantastic work and we are so proud to be able to support them and the incredible work they do, so read on to learn more about them…
Faraway Children’s Charity
The Faraway Children’s Charity are a local, Northamptonshire based charity who help disadvantaged young children in need to survive, thrive and smile. They distribute resources such as toiletries, clothes, shoes, toys, games, books, Christmas presents, Easter eggs and food, as well as planning festive celebrations such as Christmas parties to provide fun and smiles.
Duncan & Eli have been supporters of the Faraway Children’s Charity for many years and as a business we usually donate Christmas gifts to the charity to distribute to local children that may otherwise not receive a gift during the festive period. This year we were also able to fund a number of Christmas parties put on by the Faraway Children’s Charity, helping to give the children something really exciting to look forward to.
Find out more about the Faraway Children’s Charity here: http://www.farawaychildrenscharity.com/index.html
Food4Heroes
When panic buying during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic left many key workers unable to purchase even basic foods such as fresh fruit and vegetables, many pubs, restaurants and food outlets who had closed their doors to customers wanted to show support for the NHS by providing cooked meals that staff could enjoy on a rare break, after their shift or take home. This outpouring of support led to the creation of Food4Heroes. The not-for-profit organisation brought together furloughed staff from caterers, pubs and restaurants to cook nutritious meals for NHS staff.
In Northamptonshire, chef Danny Tompkins joined Food4Heroes and was quickly cooking 250 meals a day for local NHS staff from Althorp House where the Earl & Countess Spencer gave him permission to use their kitchen for all the cooking. We were very pleased to be able to donate Mellow Yellow Rapeseed Oil to Danny for all his cooking and over a period of 40 days, Danny cooked a huge 10,000 meals for Northampton General Hospital staff.
Danny is still cooking for Food4Heroes using oil donated by us, now providing food banks across Northamptonshire with 550 meals every week!
For more information on Food4Heroes, visit: https://food4heroes.org.uk/
FareShare – Fighting hunger, tackling food waste.
FareShare is a national charity that redistributes surplus food to almost 11,000 charities around the country that can turn it into meals. The food they redistribute goes to school breakfast clubs, older people’s lunch clubs, homeless shelters and community cafes. Every week, they provide enough food to create almost a million meals for vulnerable people.
Over the last 12 months, we have donated over 200 kgs of Farrington’s Mellow Yellow products. This was product that was too close to its best before date to send to shops, but still with plenty of life left for use. We hate the idea of food waste and so being able to send our surplus stock to FareShare has been fantastic as we know it is going to those in need and will be helping to fight hunger whilst also reducing food waste.
For more information on FareShare, visit their website here: https://fareshare.org.uk/
Mind – for better mental health
Mind is a mental health charity in England and Wales. Mind offers information, advice and support to anyone experiencing a mental health problem and lobbies government and local authorities on their behalf. Through helplines, community support, education and advice, Mind helps millions of people every year access the support they need to help them through any and all mental health problems.
In December we donated to Mind, helping to fund some of their work. Duncan was very keen to donate to a charity that supported those struggling with their mental health especially this year when the support given from organisations such as Mind have been absolutely critical.
For more information on Mind, visit: https://www.mind.org.uk/
Give Help Share
Give Help Share is a charity that was set up in 2020 by two teachers, Amanda & Jacqueline, to distribute food packages to families in need via schools and children’s centres in London and increasingly further afield. They are now supplying more than 2000 families every month. Amanda & Jacqueline wanted to put health and nature at the heart of their food packages so everything is healthy, nutritious and vegan. We have donated bottles of Mellow Yellow Rapeseed Oil as well as Mellow Yellow Chilli & Cumin Dressing to Give Help Share this year, which we really hope were enjoyed by the recipients.
For more information on Give Help Share, visit https://www.givehelpshare.com/home
Nominate A Friend
Back in May, we most of our office was working from home, which allowed our production team and core office staff to remain on the farm producing food for you, safely. Everyone was finding it difficult to be isolated from our friends and families but we found that food and cooking bought us together, from afar. So we set up a giveaway of 20 Mellow Yellow gift sets. We asked our followers on social media to nominate a friend, family member or neighbour that they missed sharing a meal with to receive one of these gift sets.
We were overwhelmed by the incredible nominations we received. Hundreds of heartfelt messages about key workers, missed family members and friends and those going out of their way to support others. We randomly selected 20 winners and sent a Mellow Yellow gift set to their nominee.
We absolutely loved being able to bring a little happiness to people’s day and found it incredibly inspiring to read all the nominations. We wrote a blog post with more detail which you can read here: https://www.farrington-oils.co.uk/heartfelt-isolation-nominations/
The environment is at the heart of everything we do here at Farrington’s Mellow Yellow and so it’s especially exciting when other companies focused on sustainability want to work with us! Fill Refill Co got in touch with us a while ago as they were looking for a local, eco-friendly, oil to use in a new soap product they were planning. After lots of work in their lab in Finedon (a stone’s throw from our farm), they have produced something really special!
This month Fill Refill Co have launched their Northamptonshire cleaning soap which is made from our Mellow Yellow sustainably produced British cold pressed rapeseed oil. Given that we’re neighbours, both operating out of family-run businesses in Northamptonshire, and both sharing the same sustainability and eco-credentials, it made perfect sense to collaborate. We’ve caught up with Phil from Fill Refill Co to hear all about the new product…
“We wanted to make something from the most local ingredient we could find. Our factory in Northamptonshire is surrounded by golden rapeseed fields. We thought it would be cool to see if we could make a soap from it. We’d wanted to have a go at making Castile soap for a while, knowing that we used it at home and my wife wouldn’t use anything else to clean her make up brushes.
A while back we’d thought about shipping bulk olive oil from Cyprus (where my grandfather is from) or Crete (because their olive oil is pretty special) but rapeseed was growing all around us, so it just made sense and the proximity significantly reduces carbon footprint. Vicky & Alex did lots of work at the bench and we all took home a whole load of samples… we soon got to realise that it was making a really good alkaline cleaning soap, plus it had a lovely golden colour.
When we first went to visit Farrington’s we could see they were just as passionate as us about reducing plastic waste and we were so impressed with their site. They have a really nice set-up with a no-waste, carbon neutral production site, and all their crops are grown to LEAF Marque standards, a system designed to promote environmentally responsible and sustainable farming.
They quickly understood exactly what we were trying to do, so it was easy to get it rolling. Even better, we were able to get the rapeseed oil from them in a closed loop with bulk returnable packaging.”
Introducing Fill Refill Co’s Northamptonshire Cleaning Soap!
What is it?
An alkaline cleaning soap – pH 10!
What is it good for?
This stuff is versatile, it took us almost a year to perfect, but we don’t know of another rapeseed oil liquid soap out there that works like this. We think it’s good for making your own cleaning products, or for soft water laundry, degreasing, cleaning make-up brushes or paint brushes. It’ll help remove labels from jars, use as a soak for dirty delicates, or check out our recipe below for making the ultimate natural oven cleaner – just add salt, bicarb or the amazing Fill Scrub Powder.
Where does it come from?
Made from Farrington’s Mellow Yellow Cold Pressed Rapeseed Oil, grown just down the road from our factory, supplied in a closed loop, we turn it into bulk, plastic-free Northamptonshire liquid cleaning soap. We’re still finding out more things you can do with it!
What does closed loop mean?
Fill Refill Co are all about looking at ways to reduce and reuse. Whilst recycling might sometimes be the only option, we’re all about closing the loop wherever we can. Closed-loop supply simply put means circular, there is no waste, we just keep refilling, returning, refilling, returning – Fill, Clean, Repeat.
Like Farrington’s, the environment – and our impact on it – is at the heart of what we do. That and our passion for creating straightforward eco laundry and household cleaning products, that look cool, work great and reduce packaging waste.
Fill is for everyone who’s interested in a better way to clean. We make everything ourselves, in our factory, with real chemists combining biodegradable ingredients to create simple, modern and effective eco cleaning & laundry products. No dyes. No harsh chemicals. No plastic bottles. Less waste.
What to use your Northamptonshire Cleaning Soap for…
Cleaning Soap + Salt = Thick oven cleaner
Cleaning Soap + Bicarb = Slightly abrasive alkaline cleaning for cutting greasy deposits
Cleaning Soap + Scrub Powder (Clary Sage) = Removes burnt on dirt and debris
Find more cleaning recipes at https://www.falconenamelware.com/blogs/journal-entries/eco-cleaning-recipes-for-your-falcon
Cleaning recipes for Falcon Enamelware featuring the Northamptonshire Cleaning Soap
Check out the Northamptonshire Liquid Cleaning Soap from Fill Refill Co here and find your local stockist here.