The Pure Local team is a group of motivated Belgian farmers, maltsers and agronomists who want to bring brewing barley back to the Belgian soils. With a passion for nature, cereals and regenerative farming practices we manage to grow high quality barley on our soil. Protecting our natural sources and climate are key.
PURE
for an agriculture that respects
the soil and the planet,
and a malt of exceptional quality
LOCAL
+97% of the Barley malted in Belgium is
imported. We want to change this and
support our local farmers.
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PURE LOCAL VALUES
THE PHILOSOPHY
BEHIND PURE LOCAL
WE CARE FOR OUR SOIL
HEALTHY SOILS FOR HEALTHY BARLEY
At Belgomalt, we care about our fields. We realize that it is not an endless source of nutrients and we deeply respect its value. Healthy soil is the basis for growing healthy barley.
LESS CO2, MORE WATER ABSORPTION
ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
Throughout the years, traditional agricultural techniques proved their purpose, but more than ever we realize they make our soils very vulnerable. Today, agriculture contributes to a large proportion of worldwide CO2 emissions, this doesn’t have to be the case. Regenerative agriculture can lead to crops extracting more carbon from the air, strengthening the vitality of the soil and reducing CO2 emission.
CARBON IS KEY
MORE NATURAL
NUTRIENTS AND LESS ADDED FERTILIZER
Organisms in uncultivated soils emit a continuous amount of CO2. Instead of laying the fields fallow, we can sow it with ground-covering crops. These crops extract CO2 from the air and store it in the earth as nutrition. Moreover, the soil will be protected by a natural cover and it will be easier for rootlets to find their way to deeper layers of the soil to find water and nutrients, therefore use of fertilizers will become less crucial.
AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE
38 COMMITTED BELGIAN FARMERS
In the Gembloux region we have a group of farmers who grow malting barley. They take the best possible measures to meet the high quality standards of our brewers. All the farmers apply regenerative farming techniques. They signed a specification guiding their farms to fully regenerative. We are able to measure the carbon footprint of these farms.
SUSTAINABILITY
REGENERATIVE
AGRICULTURE
With Pure Local, Belgomalt is fully committed to regenerative agriculture. To this end, we are working with agricultural advisory organization: Regenacterre.
They have since the end of 2021, the EU trade mark“regenerative agriculture ” obtained.
The label guarantees the application of the following regenerative agriculture techniques.
THE DATA
THE DATA PROVES IT
WORKS
We have had all Pure Local farmers of harvest 2020 evaluated by the “My Soil Capital” tool and the results are already very promising. The cultivation shows a negative CO2 balance.Per hectare of Pure Local field, on average more CO2 was stored in the soil than was emitted.
ARE YOU INTERESTED?
BUY PURE LOCAL MALT
Are you interested to use our local malt in your beer? Take a look at our webshop, or contact Alexander, as our stocks are limited!
