Who we are

Welcome! We are the co-founders of Planting Press; a young Aussie couple, passionate about increasing the availability of genuinely sustainable greeting cards and party products used to celebrate life’s big moments.

The business was ideated after a year jam-packed full of weddings, engagements, baby showers, birthdays, and other congratulatory moments in which we spent hundreds of dollars on last minute runs to the store to buy underwhelming yet overpriced, plastic-wrapped, cardboard greeting cards that would be thrown in the bin soon after the big moment, ending up in landfill forever. Rarely were there genuinely eco-friendly options to buy.

For a short while, we bought no cards at all! However, this in itself was not socially sustainable, as we love to celebrate those near to us and share supportive and heartfelt messages, even if they won’t be kept forever.

Planting Press was therefore borne out of frustration at the greeting card and stationary industry. Our mission is to create a lovable card product that becomes commonly used by people who also love to celebrate life’s big moments without damaging the environment because it is plantable and 100% biodegradable.

If plastic bags at grocery stores and plastic straws in pubs are no longer acceptable, why should we accept that the stationary industry can use plastic to wrap a paper card? Or cards used by trees chopped down from forests? We invite you to join our quest to normalise no-waste gifting and celebrations, while watching our cards bloom!

If you have feedback or would like to collaborate with us, please contact hello@planting-press.com.