- We produce 30% of our electricity with our onsite solar panels and the rest comes from external renewable sources.
- We have a 30 foot polytunnel in the back garden where we grow our own vegetables and herbs
- We keep chickens that are mainly fed food waste from the hostel kitchen.
- We have an organic composting system used to enrich our hostel garden and polytunnel.
- Our waste is segregated throughout the hostel to reduce the amount of waste going to land
- We love to upcycle as you can see by our ecclectic furniture.
- We strive to buy local where possible (70%).
- We plant trees in a local farm where a rewilding of a man made forest is on ongoing project.
- We encourage guests to use our rental bikes or public transport instead of their cars to get around the town and national park.
- We offer a keep cup discount to all coffee shack customers.
- We use fair trade coffee.
- We use compostable takeaway cups.
- We reuse our coffee grinds in the garden our give them to customers for their compost heaps.
- We have a no disposable cup policy for our staff.
- Any guest who arrives on bicycle gets a free tea/coffee/hot chocolate.