The Foodprint Experience – Gold Star Recycler

If you want to enjoy your morning coffee and feel really, really good about it The Foodprint Experience  at 111 Franklin Street is the place to go.  The Footprint Experience is a small café sitting alongside the Sustinability Centre and Joinery.  Their mission is to (re)connect people to the food they eat, where it comes from and demonstrate how simple choices can have positive impacts on the environment and the future of our community.

Melissa Rayner started the Foodprint Experience in 2018, having no prior experience running a café, but having enormous amounts of energy and passion for ethical food, fair employment and being an active part of a sustainable future.

Melissa is one of SA’s sustainability thought leaders and her creativity, absolute commitment to action and ‘we can succeed’ philosophy is the driver of decision making at the Footprint Experience.    Consideration of the environment and ethics play a critical role for Melissa’s decision making and while this may be considered risky and unusual, she proves that you can run a successful business and be ‘green’ too.  Composting organic material with Jeffries Compost Service, recycling what little waste comes into the cafe, employing people who are long term unemployed and need a hand getting back into the workforce, and supporting ethical, local suppliers are just a normal part of doing business here.