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Eco Friendly Corporate Gifts
That Grow Your Brand

Handmade seed paper gifts your clients and staff can actually plant. Every notebook, planter and card carries real flower, herb or vegetable seeds, so your logo ends up in someone’s garden instead of a landfill.
Sustainable Client Tank you Gifts

What Makes a Corporate Gift Eco Friendly?

Eco friendly corporate gifts need to do more than say thank you, they need to reflect what your brand actually stands for. Our seed paper is made from 100% recycled post consumer paper, pulped using borehole water instead of chemicals, bleach or dyes. The waste paper itself is sourced locally from businesses and schools around Malmesbury, keeping the supply chain inside the local economy rather than importing raw material. 

Production stays deliberately handmade and air dried, a choice we make to protect the 38 jobs it supports in our community, not because it is the fastest way to make paper. 

Every gift is finished with water based ink for branding, and the seeds embedded inside are germination tested twice, once at an independent laboratory and again in our own growing rooms, before a single sheet leaves the factory. That is what “eco friendly” means on a Growing Paper product, not a label, a supply chain.

Our Eco Friendly Gift Range

Seed Kits

plantable kits with seeds, ready for employees or clients to grow at their desk
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Desktop Planters

branded ceramic planters paired with a seed packet and growing pellet

Papercrete Planter Kits

planters made from our own recycled pulp waste mixed with cement, herb or tree seed options

MOMO Pencils

wood free pencils made by hand from 100% recycled newspaper, unbranded or laser engraved

Notebooks and Notepads

wiro or sewn bound, made from sustainable stock

Flyers

promotional print that gets planted instead of binned

Coasters

round, scalloped or square, customisable for events and offices

Calendars

a different seed featured each month, so the gift keeps working all year

Biodegradable Gift Bags

compostable packaging made from the same plantable seed paper
The Process

How the Seed Paper Actually Grow

Every corporate gift in this range is embedded with real flower, herb or vegetable seeds, chosen to suit the size of the product. Once your client or employee is done using the gift, they tear it into pieces, soak it in water, and plant it in soil. Within a few weeks the seeds germinate and grow, turning a one time gift into a lasting reminder of your brand sitting on someone’s windowsill or garden bed. 

We test every seed batch twice before it goes anywhere near production, first at an independent laboratory, then again in our own growing rooms at the Paardeberg factory, so the “it actually grows” promise is something we can stand behind rather than a line on the packaging. It is the difference between a gift that gets used once and one that keeps showing up.

Our Clients

Trusted By Brands Across South Africa

We have produced corporate seed paper gifts for brands including Spier, Boschendal, Rovos Rail, Liberty, WWF, Heineken, Bidvest Insurance, SA Home Loans, Babylonstoren, Delaire Graff, The Spar Group and the Endangered Wildlife Trust, across projects ranging from executive welcome gifts to staff wide giveaways.
Why Growing Paper

Why Choose Growing Paper for Corporate Gifting

Sustainable by design

100% recycled post consumer paper, water based ink, no bleach, no chemicals, no synthetic dyes, air dried

Handmade, on purpose

hand labour is kept in the process deliberately, supporting 38 permanent local jobs rather than automating them away

Fully customisable

logo, brand colours and message across seed kits, desktop planters, notebooks, notepads, coasters, calendars and envelopes

Tested to actually grow

every seed batch germination tested twice before production

Packaging that matches the promise

biodegradable gift bags made from the same plantable seed paper

Delivered where you need it

worldwide shipping through our European agent for international clients

What Clients Say

Trusted by Corporate Brands Across SA

Everything you Need to Know

Frequently Asked Questions

Our seed paper products are made from 100% recycled post consumer paper, pulped using borehole water instead of chemicals or bleach. The waste paper is sourced locally from businesses and schools around Malmesbury, keeping the supply chain within the local economy. Every gift is handmade, by design, since we intentionally keep production hand labour based to support the 38 people we employ full time from the surrounding community. Branding is printed with water based ink, with no dyes added anywhere in the process. Across a typical year, this recycled paper production keeps around 20 tons of waste paper out of landfill. We also produce compostable, biodegradable gift bags from the same plantable seed paper, so the packaging your gift arrives in breaks down naturally too, rather than becoming its own piece of waste.
Each product is embedded with flower, herb or vegetable seeds, chosen to suit the item’s size. Once your client or employee has finished using the gift, they tear it into pieces, soak it in water, and plant it in soil. Within a few weeks the seeds germinate and grow, turning a one time gift into a lasting reminder of your brand. Every seed batch is germination tested twice, once at an independent laboratory and again in our own growing rooms at the factory, before it goes into a single sheet of paper. That double check is what lets us stand behind the “it actually grows” promise, rather than just printing it on the box.
Yes. Every product in our corporate gift range, including seed kits, desktop planters, notebooks, notepads, coasters, calendars and recycled paper envelopes, can be customised with your logo, brand colours or a personalised message. Our Desktop Planter range is a good example of full branding in practice, the ceramic pot, the seed packet and the grow kit box can all carry your identity as one matching set, produced entirely in our Paardeberg factory. Corporate clients we have printed for include Spier, Boschendal, Rovos Rail, WWF, Heineken and the Endangered Wildlife Trust, across gifting projects ranging from executive welcome gifts to staff wide giveaways.
Minimum order quantities vary by product and level of customisation. Standard items like seed paper sheets or basic gift cards can be ordered from as little as one unit, while more specialised items, such as papercrete planter kits, carry a minimum of around 30 units. Contact us with your requirements, whether it is a small executive gifting list or a larger volume for your entire client or staff base, and we will put together a tailored quote.
Yes. We deliver corporate orders across South Africa using The Courier Guy, Fastway, PostNet, Aramex and Pudo lockers. For businesses outside South Africa, we ship worldwide directly from our Paardeberg factory and work with our European agent based in the Netherlands to support clients in that region.
Yes. We deliver corporate orders across South Africa using The Courier Guy, Fastway, PostNet, Aramex and Pudo lockers. For businesses outside South Africa, we ship worldwide directly from our Paardeberg factory and work with our European agent based in the Netherlands to support clients in that region.

Ready to Give a Gift That Grows?

Tell us a bit about your project, quantity, branding and timeline, and Franza, our Client Director, will put together a tailored quote. We reply from [email protected], or you can WhatsApp Franza directly on 071 471 2603.

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