Maker’s Mark’s case for business conservation of nature
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Photo caption: Maker’s Mark’s facility in Kentucky. Photo credit: Emily Payne / GreenBiz. Article by Emily Payne. GreenBiz – December 5, 2022.
The bourbon company is investing in trees and other crop species to ensure the whiskey sectors viability for decades to come.
Maker’s Mark produces every one of its 23.5 million bottles of bourbon per year — including hand-cut labels and hand-dipped wax seals — onsite in Loretto, Kentucky. But the Maker’s Mark distillery might look more like a research farm than an international liquor brand: Only 1 percent of its 1,400-acre property, Star Hill Farm, is devoted to distilling, aging, bottling and shipping bourbon. […]