Recycling is a great way to reduce your contribution to the waste stream, but it’s even more sustainable to reuse something than to recycle it. When you’ve finished your Earthbound Farm organic salad, why not reuse that clamshell container for something new?

Our salad clamshells make great planters for baby lettuce seeds and a wide variety of other plants, indoors and out. Getting your hands into the soil, whether it’s a sunny garden acre or a few containers on your window sill, can be an enjoyable pastime and great fun to share with kids.

Twenty-five years ago, Earthbound Farm started in a backyard garden in Carmel Valley, California, where our founders, Drew and Myra Goodman — a couple of New York City transplants — wanted to grow their own fresh, healthy food. (Read the whole story.) More than raspberries and baby heirloom lettuces flourished in the warm valley sun; what took root was an unshakeable commitment to organic food and farming.

We wish you good gardening!

How to grow your own salad in a clamshell
See how our clamshell garden grew