GREEN & ACCESSIBLE DESIGN 

Thistlerock Mead Company has leveraged design principles for our production building and facilities that will minimize embodied carbon. This involved reusing and repurposing buildings at our farm, limiting the use of carbon intensive materials, limiting the use of concrete, reusing materials, maximizing structural efficiency, using carbon sequestering material such as cellulose insulation, and reducing waste. 

As part of this effort, we have upcycled an existing barn on the farm as the primary footprint for our production facility, and we have repurposed an existing 1830’s log cabin structure for our Tavern & Honey Library. We are incorporating green building and accessibility design principles in all renovations and new construction. This includes an initial solar installation providing over a third of the electrification requirements of our farm operation with plans to complete the remaining two-thirds solarization of our operations by the close of 2023. The fleet we use – to collect fermentation ingredients from local farms, to deliver products to farmers’ markets, retail outlets, and local mead club members, as well as for in-state brand activations and events – is entirely electric and utilizes onsite solar energy for charging.