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What is Sylvacurl?

Sylvacurl is a sustainable packaging and gift basket filler.  Sylvacurl is:

  • an environmentally friendly alternative to packaging peanuts for shipping,
  • an ecologically sound alternative to plastic gift basket grass for presentations,
  • made by a small business in the USA.
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Sylva is an adjective meaning forested, woodsy, wild or uncultivated, so Sylva-curl means forest curl or wood curl.

Sylvacurl is manufactured in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. When you use Sylvacurl you support sustainable forestry practices in northern Vermont. Small businesses like Sylvacurl create jobs and help to build local and small community economies by adding value to our natural resources. When you use Sylvacurl packaging products you also help your own and your customers’ solid waste disposal challenges because Sylvacurl does not need to enter the landfill.

Sylvacurl Standard Curls are a high performance  packaging material that provides a safe, green shipping environment for your products. Interlocking  curls cushion delicate items and prevent your products from shifting in transit. Sylvacurl natural packaging material offers a healthy alternative to many types of packing and shipping products including Styrofoam peanuts and shredded or crumpled paper. Sylvacurl eco-  friendly wood curls are naturally static free, and completely biodegradable. We do not add anything to our curls to preserve them. No harsh chemicals ever used!

We use "popple" trees to make sylvacurl.
We use Aspen trees to make Sylvacurl.

Sylvacurl  Standard Curls make the perfect base material for potpourri. They hold their shape and keep botanical ingredients  suspended. The curls hold essential oils and  scents well.   The curls may also be dyed to enhance your products or match a seasonal theme. We recommend using Createx  liquid dyes or other non toxic dyes for this purpose.

Sylvacurl Fine Cut is a beautiful and healthy alternative to basket grass,  fillers and tissue papers. This is an all natural and safe material made to enhance any product presentation from seeds and plants, to foods,  gifts, to cosmetics.

Lifecycle

Sylvacurl is made from Aspen trees, locally called popple.  Aspen was used historically for tongue depressors and toothpicks. Aspen trees can grow back from their roots after they have been cut for a cut and grow again culture. They are a fast growing tree with  a short life cycle of only twenty to forty years. Aspen trees are  the first trees to grow up along field edges on farms,  in the woodlands, and along roadsides in Vermont. They are often the pioneer species of trees that provide some cover for longer living hardwood and evergreen seedlings. When  they are cut as part of a planned forest culture the secondary longer living trees grow next in the forest succession.

Recycle and Compost Sylvacurl

Sylvacurl can be used for garden muclch
Sylvacurl can be used for garden mulch

Once Sylvacurl has  been used as a packaging material it can be reused and recycled in many ways.  Sylvacurl Fine Cut or Standard Curls can be reused as packaging until the curls begin to break up. They can be uses by florists in arrangements,  by crafts folks, and children  in many creative ways.   The curls make a wonderful fire starter for your wood stove or fireplace.   Curls are also good for adding dry matter to your compost  bucket, bin or pile. The curls make soft, absorbent animal bedding for hamsters, rabbits and  even chickens and calves!   The spent curls make attractive and useful garden mulch to keep weeds down and hold moisture in the soil. Eventually the curls naturally decompose into soil. Decomposing wood curls add carbon and air pockets to soils and help to  improve  heavy or  compacted soils as they biodegrade.  They give worms and other soil organisms good food.  It’s all part of a natural cycle.

Sylvacurl makes great animal bedding.
Sylvacurl makes great animal bedding.

Imagine, compostable packaging… it makes sense!

 

Wild Woods Maple

We were delighted to discover Sylvacurl! It is a wonderful eco-friendly shipping solution. We love that it protects our glass bottles of Vermont Pure Maple Syrup.  Jim has been great to work with and we are happy to support a local business.

Rob, Katie, Charlotte and Willa
Wild Woods Maple
Cambridge, Vermont

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What is Sylvacurl?

An environmentally friendly alternative to packaging peanuts for shipping

An ecologically sound alternative to plastic gift basket grass for presentations

Compostable, reusable, and free from dyes, chemicals and perfumes

Made by a small business in the USA!

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