How We Harvest Our Foliage | Premium Greens Australia

Premium Greens Australia’s year-round foliage products are harvested in the beautiful eastern Australian forests.

All are harvested in a sustainable and environmentally sound manner, under strict licence. The laws governing the ways in which we harvest were developed jointly by Premium Greens Australia, the government’s Environmental Protection Agency, and environmental non-governmental organisations.

We recognise the need to protect our environment for the health of the planet and the enjoyment of everyone for years to come.

The state of Queensland alone is more than 2.5 times the size of France. Harvesters move through vast areas of forest through the year, cutting only a little at a time from each area, to minimise footprint and ensure the plants can regenerate easily.

Harvesters in each area monitor plant health; and note rainfall, track, and soil conditions.

We use independent consultants to conduct environmental audits on the forests in which we harvest. Along with our own ecological research and monitoring, this helps to ensure the current and future health of flora and wildlife that depend on these forests .

Premium Greens Australia’s products from the forest are organic, as there are no chemicals allowed – in fact we’re not even allowed to water the plants. Truly all-natural products grown by Mother Nature.

Many of our harvesters have been with Premium Greens Australia for over ten years and have great expertise and knowledge.

Skilled harvesters carefully harvest to strict specifications; to limit the amount cut from each tree or plant patch, and to minimise the amount of wastage in later processing.

Great care is taken to preserve the nature and health of native Steel Grass trees (Xanthorrhoea species) as they live for many hundreds of years.

To ensure minimum environmental footprint, all harvesting is done by hand with secateurs, by specially trained staff under strict guidelines.

The inner circle of grass is not touched as this is the growing point. The outer circle is not touched as this eventually becomes compost for the tree, and habitat for native animals and insects. The middle circle is the area of good length, perfect grass for floristry use.

Steel Grass is harvested, placed in water, and shipped on refrigerated trucks to our temperature-controlled packing facility on the Sunshine Coast.

Here it is carefully graded, bunched into sleeves, and packed to meet the requirements of our customers around the world.

Umbrella Fern™ and Sea Star Fern™ grow in our native forests in Southern Queensland.

Each delicate frond is hand picked to preserve the quality of the foliage. The ferns are immediately placed in our specially-developed eco-solution for all-important initial hydration.

The ferns are brought back to our temperature controlled packing facility, where they are cooled, graded, quality checked, bunched into sleeves, and finally packed to order for shipping to customers across the world.