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Steenbergs Cinnamon Powder - Recent Heavy Metal Test Results

06 June 2025

Steenbergs Cinnamon Powder - Recent Heavy Metal Test Results

Steenbergs regularly tests for chemical contaminants in its herbs and spices to ensure they're safe. Recent tests show levels of lead in Steenbergs Organic Cinnamon averaged at 0.8 mg/kg.

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Steenbergs Carbon Footprint - Drilling into the Data

08 April 2024

Steenbergs Carbon Footprint - Drilling into the Data

In 2016, Steenbergs began on its plan to reduce its controllable carbon impacts. Here, we discuss how we've reduced the direct impacts by over -90% (before carbon offsets) since then..

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Meet our stockist - Valley Organics Workers Coop

31 May 2023

Meet our stockist - Valley Organics Workers Coop

We’re so lucky to have lots of lovely Steenbergs stockists all over the country who champion organic food and farming and strive to make organic produce available to all. 

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Steenbergs Sustainability & Impact Report 2022

08 March 2023

Steenbergs Sustainability & Impact Report 2022

2022 has been a tough year for sales and costs. Steenbergs has reduced its environmental impact, by cutting water use and waste and eliminating electricity from fossil fuels. We are carbon neutral and zero waste to landfill.

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Time for Tea with Ella from Rasa Teas

27 February 2023

Time for Tea with Ella from Rasa Teas

Have you heard of Chocolate Tea? It's a wonderful combination of cacao husk flavoured with delicious organic ingredients such as vanilla, orange and rose. 

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Axel and Sophie's Visit To Allerton Park Waste Recovery Park - 2022

03 November 2022

Axel and Sophie's Visit To Allerton Park Waste Recovery Park - 2022

Axel and Sophie visited the Allerton Park Waste Recovery Site to start our journey to understanding what happens to our rubbish - at Steenbergs and at home. The plant diverts almost all local waste from landfill (93%) through energy recovery.

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Community House Ripon: Waste Not Wednesdays

18 October 2022

Community House Ripon: Waste Not Wednesdays

Ripon Community House, based in Ripon, North Yorkshire, runs a fabulous community scheme called Waste Not Wednesdays and we chatted to Caroline Bentham to find out more about it…

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Olaf Wood - Tree, Plant and Bird Surveys in April 2022

03 June 2022

Olaf Wood - Tree, Plant and Bird Surveys in April 2022

Axel and Sophie went down to Olaf Wood in April to hunt for spring colours and found lots of bluebells, an indicator of ancient woodland. We took more soil samples and did some basic tree, plant and bird surveys.

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Update On Olaf Woods: Crack Willows and Crabapples Planted And Litter Pick

27 May 2022

Update On Olaf Woods: Crack Willows and Crabapples Planted And Litter Pick

Sophie and Axel Steenberg have planted 36 crack willow and 4 crabapple trees, and cleared litter in their wood in South Wales.

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Steenbergs achieves B Corp certification

05 May 2022

Steenbergs achieves B Corp certification

Steenbergs is pleased to have become one of over 700 UK B Corp businesses, showing that we’re dedicated to using business as a force for good.

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Supplier Focus: Seggiano, handpicked food from Italy

08 March 2022

Supplier Focus: Seggiano, handpicked food from Italy

With a shared ethical ethos and passion for high quality, artisan products, Seggiano and Steenbergs are perfect partners. “We started stocking Seggiano products many years ago after tasting their organic extra-virgin olive oil and haven’t looked back...

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Steenbergs Installs Rainwater Harvesting At 6 Hallikeld Close Factory

21 February 2022

Steenbergs Installs Rainwater Harvesting At 6 Hallikeld Close Factory

Steenbergs has finished a project today to install rainwater harvesting at its spice factory. This is part of Steenbergs' commitment to reduce its water usage by 25% by 2025.

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How Water Moves Across The Landscape At Steenbergs Wood In South Wales

15 December 2021

How Water Moves Across The Landscape At Steenbergs Wood In South Wales

As he walks across the woodland, Axel discovers about the water processes at work - groundwater flows, streams and transpiration and how trees create clouds and flying rivers that flow across the heavens.

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A Short Nature Walk Through Steenbergs Woodland In Garnant, South Wales

23 July 2021

A Short Nature Walk Through Steenbergs Woodland In Garnant, South Wales

A short nature walk with our newly planted woodland in Garnant, South Wales, that describes the habitats we walked through.

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Green directory for ethical suppliers

10 March 2021

Green directory for ethical suppliers

Have you ever wondered where to search for ethical suppliers, eco-friendly goods and services and news on current environmental topics? Well, there are a wealth of directories out there which collate details and link back to relevant websites making...

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Thank YOU and a year on...

21 January 2021

Thank YOU and a year on...

Firstly many thanks to all our many existing customers and those new to Steenbergs who have supported us and we hope we've been able to enable you, even if a little bit, to create and keep going amidst the turmoil of the recent 12 months. We hope you...

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The World Is Too Much With Us, A Beautiful Poem By Wordsworth

02 April 2020

The World Is Too Much With Us, A Beautiful Poem By Wordsworth

The World Is Too Much With Us, A Beautiful Poem By Wordsworth From Around 1802

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Steenbergs Going Plastic Free

11 March 2020

Steenbergs Going Plastic Free

Having set Steenbergs the target of removing plastic from packaging in 2020, we have gone plastic free. We've ditched plastic seals on teas and stuffings, and switched from plastic to biomaterials for teas, stuffings, mulled wine spices and refill packs.

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More Solar Panelling for Steenbergs

28 February 2020

More Solar Panelling for Steenbergs

Steenbergs has targeted net carbon zero by 2025. We've just installed more solar panelling that removes 60% of carbon from our energy consumption.

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