Sustainability Efforts

As a grower-owned cooperative, we rely on the environment for our livelihoods. We want to minimize our environmental impact by applying sustainable practices to everything we do.

Not only do we intend to meet or exceed existing environmental regulations, we are always refining plans to reduce packaging, ingredient and product waste before it becomes pollution.

Here are a few sustainable practices here at Musselman’s:

• Whether it’s the peel or the core left over from apple sauce and slice production sent to cider mills for juice pressing, we use every part of every apple.


• Apple pomace, the pressed apple material from juice production is used as cattle feed.


• 14,000 solar panels were activated at the Peach Glen manufacturing plant.


• Our trucking fleets use soybean-based bio-diesel fuel.


• We use 250,000 repairable wood apple bins and 32,000 recyclable plastic
  apple bins.


• We capture water from processing operations and we use it to irrigate
  grass fields.


• We redesigned our packaging to reduce waste and have eliminated wasteful packaging lines completely.