The Nam Hom Coconut
WHAT MAKES NAM HOM COCONUTS SO SPECIAL?
Back to the heart of our story: the coconut. Our founders searched the world (ok, most of it) for the very best coconut water. They found it in Thailand, inside a small, humble Nam Hom coconut, a name that aptly means "fragrant ones."
Every Nam Hom coconut farm we work with for our Organic Coconut Water is organic certified. That’s a big deal because it’s the only way to verify that the Nam Homs we use in our organic coconut water are grown without the use of persistent pesticides, synthetic fertilizers or sewage sludge. It also means our coconuts are not irradiated or produced
with GMOs.
HOW MANY DO WE USE?
FARMS
We work with about 300 farms.
Coconuts Per Week
The farms we work with can produce up to 300k coconuts PER WEEK during the high season.
Since Founding
We've utilized hundreds of millions of coconuts to produce all of those delicious coconut products you all see on shelves.
WHAT ABOUT ALL THAT WASTE?
This brings us to our second biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions: coconut waste.
We punch and drain all of our Nam Hom coconuts, which leaves us with coconut meat and the husk.
Instead of tossing the coconut meat (it’s delicious!), we upcycled it into our yogurt and smoothie products! In fact, finding uses for our coconut meat as demand for our coconut water grows informs our innovation pipeline. Less coconut waste + delicious new products = HECK YEAH for us & the environment.
The husks from the Nam Hom coconut are a bigger challenge. We turn a small fraction into compost, but have big plans to convert the rest into biochar to fuel our factories. You read that right. A coconut product factory… powered by… coconuts. Nuts? Maybe. Possible? We think so.