Holiday - Sysco Seattle
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chicks to our chicken coop to<br />
lay eggs which we’ll use in our<br />
custards and a select few gelato<br />
recipes. The chicken coop<br />
features a sustainable green<br />
roof to help moderate the<br />
temperature for our chickens<br />
as well as to distribute rainwater<br />
runoff more evenly.<br />
In 2013 we will add an apiary<br />
with honey bees that will<br />
help to naturally pollinate our<br />
plants. We will use their honey<br />
for recipes like our honey<br />
lavender ice cream.<br />
Sustainability and Commitment<br />
to our Community<br />
While our passion is making<br />
ice cream, we are much more<br />
than that. We are staunchly<br />
committed to sustainability in<br />
everything we do. From our<br />
building design to the compostable<br />
cups and spoons we<br />
use in our café, our impact on<br />
the community and our envi-<br />
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ronment are always at<br />
forefront of our minds.<br />
Barry’s commitment<br />
to sustainable business<br />
began years ago back<br />
in New York where his<br />
father set an example<br />
by being one of the<br />
first conservation farmers<br />
around (there was<br />
no sustainability back<br />
then). His father instilled<br />
in him the value<br />
of re-using materials<br />
and preserving natural<br />
resources to make a<br />
great product and a far<br />
better world.<br />
Our café and<br />
farm is a model of<br />
sustainable, low impact<br />
design. Barry and<br />
Shahnaz looked long<br />
Amongst other sustainable features around the and hard for the perfect<br />
place to build their<br />
plant, the Snoqualmie Ice Cream factory features<br />
solar panels to generate renewable energy.<br />
business and settled on<br />
property with a singlefamily<br />
dwelling here in Maltby.<br />
Re-using as much of the existing<br />
building as they could,<br />
they minimized the materials<br />
that were carted away to<br />
the landfill during the building<br />
phase. Further design considerations<br />
were given to the use<br />
of power and the impact on<br />
the environment and can be<br />
witnessed around the property.<br />
Highlights of<br />
sustainable design<br />
on our property<br />
include:<br />
• Our parking lot<br />
is made of pervious<br />
concrete allowing<br />
rainwater<br />
to drain evenly to<br />
nourish the native<br />
soil below. The<br />
rainwater then<br />
moves through<br />
the ground, replenishing<br />
the groundwater<br />
while also being absorbed by<br />
surrounding vegetation, or<br />
by evaporation. This reduces<br />
flooding by reducing the<br />
amount of water released into<br />
storm drains and pipes, ensuring<br />
pollutants won’t reach<br />
the streams that are homes<br />
for salmon.<br />
• Bio-filtration Swales (bioswales)<br />
are ditches surrounding<br />
our plant and farm that are<br />
lined with grass and plants to<br />
filter water and slow the runoff<br />
through them, releasing<br />
excess water back into the<br />
soil and reducing the amount<br />
of runoff that goes into storm<br />
drains nearby.<br />
• Our plant features solar<br />
panels to generate renewable<br />
energy. The location for the<br />
plant used to be a single-family<br />
home and we preserved as<br />
much of the original structure<br />
during construction to minimize<br />
materials sent to landfills.<br />
• State of the art energy efficient<br />
lighting, refrigeration<br />
and compressors, along with<br />
heat recovery systems, significantly<br />
reduce our energy and<br />
water usage.<br />
• Waste heat recovered from<br />
the machinery in the ice<br />
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