our roots

Since 1992.

What began as handmade wedding invitations in a Boston apartment became something larger. Melissa Smedley and Jeff Lindenthal discovered that paper didn't need trees. They moved to San Diego, built a workshop, and started making paper from what others overlooked: corn husks, hemp, cotton scraps, garlic skins.

They called it Found Stuff Paperworks. Later, Green Field Paper Company. Now, Fiore Paper.

The tools haven't changed much. A 300-gallon vat. A pulping beater. A hydraulic press. Molds and deckles worked by hand. What has changed is what the paper carries: California wildflower seeds embedded in the pulp, ready to return to earth.

For over thirty years, our papermakers in Oceanside have been turning fiber into something that lasts and something that grows. Every sheet is made by hand using methods that predate machines. No two pieces are identical. No shortcuts exist.

We pioneered plantable seed paper in the United States. We built products around the idea that beautiful things don't have to end, they can transform. Paper becomes soil. Soil becomes flowers. Flowers become paper.

This is craft that refuses to stay still. This is work that closes the circle.