India has an abundance of Areca Palm trees, which shed leaves every 21 days or so.

When the leaves fall to the ground, the farmers collect them all.

Some of the leaves are composted or used for earthworm farming but most of the leaves are burned.

We use some of the leaves to make plates and bowls and trays and just about anything else you might serve food from.

Well it’s not really us who make them. They’re actually made by people local to the beautiful forests where the Areca Palm trees are found.

The trees are usually found in rural areas where the local people are often marginalised and have difficulty supporting themselves.

Making palm plates is a good way for them to earn a living and help support their families.

As the process is very hands on, for the amount of leaves that fall to ground in India every year, up to 300,000 of its millions of under privileged people could be employed making palm leaf plates to replace all the paper and plastic ones around the world.

That’s the project and that’s what we would like to do.

You can help by buying palm leaf plates and telling everyone you know about what we do and how good the product is!