Sustainability Award
For outstanding Eco-friendly programming - Restaurant/Breweries award Awarded at Discover Flagstaff Annual Stakeholder & Partner meeting 2020.
Mother Road Brewing Company
Mother Road Brewing Company earns the Discover Flagstaff 2020 EcoTourism Award for outstanding Eco-Friendly Programming in the Restaurant/Brewery category.
Mother Road Brewing Company won this year for their partnership with Arizona Game and Fish, creating a beer with the proceeds supporting the conservation of over 800 species of wildlife in Arizona.
- Operates in a Coconino County sustainable building certified building.
- Their building uses all natural lighting.
- They donate grain used in the building process to a composting company.
- They also use this grain to make dog biscuits.
- Their partnership with Arizona Game and Fish, creating a beer with the proceeds supporting the conservation of over 800 species of wildlife in Arizona.
- Portion of the proceeds go to 2 wildlife conservations in Arizona.
- To mitigate waste of unnecessary valuable material they set up a partnership with local cattle ranchers who take grain from the brewing process.
- In the last year this resulted in over 2 million pounds of grain being diverted to cattle.
- Since 2018 Forestdale Farms of Flagstaff picks up 1000’s of gallons of organic material from their brewery each week.
- This organic material speeds up their composting process, the farm then uses this compost to grow vegetables which are sold locally at the flagstaff farmers market.
Watch the full Stakeholder event here