Batch dates, named Western Cape growers, a kitchen in Salt River, and the plain ingredient cards that travel in every pouch. This page gathers the verifiable details behind our hemp-seed and botanical snack boxes, so you can judge the pantry work on its own terms.
These are notes from customers who ordered a starter box, worked through the pouches and came back with something specific to say. We keep them as they were written, with the details that mattered to the person.
Sent the office thank-you box to a team of eight. The batch dates on the pouches settled a few questions before anyone opened them, and the ingredient cards meant nobody had to guess what was in the cacao-date bites.
I asked for a nut-free build for my mother's housewarming. They swapped the seed clusters for a second pouch of brittle and told me exactly which items stayed. Nothing arrived that I had to hand back.
The rooibos brittle is the reason I reordered. It held up in a car boot over a long weekend and still snapped clean when we opened it on the Sunday. The tisane pouch went with it.
Two months into the subscription and the rotation is doing what I hoped. Two new items each month, and I have stopped buying the same supermarket seed mix out of habit.
I wrote a long dietary note and expected a generic reply. Instead the kitchen came back with which items could move and which could not, and the box arrived matching that list.
Bought a starter box for myself before gifting one. The toasted hemp hearts were still crisp three weeks after opening, which told me the resealable pouches were not just a label detail.
References only hold up if the words around them mean something specific. These are the definitions we use on this page, in our ingredient cards and in the kitchen notes that travel with each pouch. Where a term is loose in everyday use, we say what it means here.
A run mixed, baked or packed in one sitting in the Salt River kitchen, then dated by hand. It is not a marketing size. It means the brittle was pulled on the same day it was snapped, and the seed clusters were cooled before packing rather than held in trays overnight.
We use hulled hemp seed, which most suppliers and our own cards call hemp hearts. It is a food ingredient from Western Cape growers. Nothing on this site describes anything else, and no product here is intended for any use beyond eating.
When a grower's seed lot is finished, the item comes off the build-your-own list until the next delivery. We would rather show a gap than substitute a different seed and keep the same name on the card. Subscriptions rotate two new items a month for this reason.
A vegan box and a nut-free box are not the same request. We pack seed clusters and cacao-date bites in one kitchen, so we cannot promise a nut-free environment. If your note depends on that distinction, say so plainly and we will tell you what we can and cannot do before packing.
The date on the pouch is the packing date, not a best-before. Toasted notes fade first, usually within a few weeks of opening. A pouch that has sat unopened for two months is still food, but it belongs in baking rather than on a Sunday shelf.
We do not publish ratings, order counts or awards we have not received. What we can point to is a named kitchen, a short list of growers, dated runs and ingredient cards written in plain language. If a claim is not backed by one of those, it does not belong on this page.
Questions about a specific batch, a dietary note or a grower can go to info@weedtreats.com or 0218766257. The kitchen is at 683 Banda Creek, Barnardfontein, WC 8378.