Salus Sustainability Report 2021 - Report - Page 19
We live sustainably
We live sustainably
Our suppliers.
LONG-TERM AND BASED ON
TRUST:
OUR PARTNERSHIPS
Green oat cultivated by the
Oberhauser company
HEGEMA MEDICINAL
PL ANTS AND SPICES —
A FAMILY BUSINESS IN ITS
4TH GENERATION
We carefully select our suppliers. We want
our partner companies to share our views on
sustainability and climate protection. When
selecting our suppliers, we give preference
to companies from the region. Against this
background, we have successfully worked
with a large number of companies for many
years and even decades.
It all started with a small batch of stinging
nettles. Back in the day, Walther Schoenenberger commissioned this order. These
stinging nettles were then used to press
the first fresh juices. Now, nine decades
later and in its 4th generation, the Winter
family grows approx. 35 different certified
organic medicinal herbs and spice plants
on 100 hectares of land. In 2018, the family
business was even awarded the Bioland
certification seal.
The customers of the Winter farming business benefit from decades of experience
in the field. The family members decide
together what is best for their plants.
They cultivate medicinal plants such as
echinacea, St. John’s wort, stinging nettle,
thyme, artichoke, or yarrow.
The Winter family
A prime example of that is the Hegema
company operated by the Winter family.
Now in its 4th generation, they are one of our
suppliers of raw materials for our fresh plant
juices. The Oberhauser company, our supplier
for green oat, is based at Lake Chiemsee
close to our production sites (approx. 50 km
from Bruckmühl). For assembling our advent
calendar, we have been working with the
Eglharting workshops — a certified workshop
for disabled people — for many years now.
Their portfolio also includes vegetables,
e.g. potatoes, cabbage, beetroot, and
black radish. Every year, a team of twenty
employees working for the business based
in Magstadt, a town in the German state
of Baden-Württemberg, carefully tend to
the different plants and cultures to harvest
the crop at the optimum time and in a
manner that is as gentle on the plants as
possible. When tending to such a large
number of different plants, it is especially
important to be mindful and sustainable
across every step of the cultivation process, from sowing all the way to harvest
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