Howler Monkey on a Bird Friendly coffee farm in Nicaragua This morning on Earth Day I awoke to an inbox full of “Earth Day” emails, all of which in one way or another trying to entice me to buy something
Bird Friendly® coffee is not just about birds! Coffee cultivation is also entwined with climate change. According to a recent paper by Dr. Robert Rice of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, Bird Friendly® coffee farms are better equipped to withstand
Sample Entry We are offering you a chance to win one of 2 pairs of tickets to the sold out Lakeshorts Film Festival! We have been sponsoring the festival since it started 9 years ago. The festival is a lot
We are committed to a shared future with our co-workers. Employees who demonstrate commitment and leverage to the team, and who are devoted to our values, are eligible to participate in a generous employee ownership program. This program is designed
The AEROPRESS Coffee Maker is a simple and effective way to make coffee: Water and grounds are mixed together for ten seconds. Then gentle air pressure pushes the mix through a micro-filter in 20 seconds. The total brewing time of
Our coffee growers are on the front line preserving forest ecosystems…. All of these pictures were taken on Bird Friendly coffee farms!
In addition to supporting our suppliers who provide us with products and services that embody our values, we are also strongly motivated to support initiatives that
1) are aimed at preserving and restoring habitat for birds and other wildlife;
2) add value to our community and are conducted within the immediate vicinity of the café.
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We are proud to offer this unique scone made with all organic ingredients. What a delicious and beautifully textured scone it is! Great for breakfast or lunch. The organic ingredients mean that it, like all of our baking, our great new
When we say our coffees are Organic, we mean all of our coffees are certified organic by Ecocert Canada.
The Bird Friendly Logo is Changing Look for the new Bird Friendly logo on all of our coffees. They are ALL certified organic coffees grown in Certified Bird Friendly Habitat! Dark Blend with new logo Mimico Joe label with
“[Almonds] are also contributing to drought problems in California. Eighty per cent of the world’s almond supply comes from the state experiencing its worst drought on record. A report published by The Watershed Agricultural Council found that a single almond
As Coffee Roasters, we know green coffee beans. Green coffee beans are our raw material. Great roasted coffee can only come from great green coffee.
The New Bird Friendly Seal The Smithsonian Seal appears in the new logo. We say goodbye and thank-you to the Old Seal Have a look at the new Bird Friendly logo… the seal that represents the gold standard of
Show us your Mimico Joe! Use the hashtag #MimicoJoe to be entered in our monthly draw for Birds & Beans Gift cards and Mimico Joe T-shirts. Mimico is our home and we love it, which is why it deserves to
Mimico Joe is approachable, unpretentious, authentic, solid, and full of interest… just like Mimico.
Sunflower Kitchen Soups Come in to Birds and Beans Coffee and treat yourself to something special! Our coffees are all certified organic, bird friendly, and fairly traded, boutique coffees. We use Organic Meadow Milk in our latté and cappuccino. Treat yourself with 100%
Gift cards for the Café. Use them on anything in the store.
Quality habitat for as far as the eye can see! As we near the end of the summer, many of us will be shifting our focus towards new routines at work or school. Similarly, many species of wild birds
At Birds and Beans we are forever expanding and deepening our commitment to sustainability. As we learn about issues and find solutions, we weave them into the fabric of what we do. Some years ago, we were struck by a
Coffee grown upslope provides habitat versus downslope sun coffee farm. Many of the world’s companies pay no attention to how their supply chains are damaging forests, the Prince of Wales has warned as he urged action to stop deforestation. At
Order Online Today We’re delighted to introduce our second Special Edition coffee: The Messenger Blend, produced in association with The Messenger Documentary – a film by Su Rynard. While the full length documentary explores the impact of our activities on birds around the
One of the best parts of my job is speaking to passionate people – people who are passionate about coffee and also people who are passionate about the environment. Some people are passionate about both. A few months ago, I had one of
As spring returns and our beloved migratory songbirds make their way back to Canada from their wintering grounds in Central and South America, we urge you to support them by purchasing certified Bird Friendly® coffee! Our friend and supporter
We are excited to announce the introduction of our first Special Edition coffee, “Ontario Nature” Blend. This is a special blend in many ways. It is Triple Certified: Bird Friendly, Fair Trade and Organic, and like all of our coffees,
A Monarch Butterfly visiting a Bergamot plant in our patio garden. On a related note – we add our voice to support the proposed changes to Ontario’s Weed Control Act that would remove Milkweed from the list and make it
More than 10 years ago, we set out to create a different kind of company – one that would give consumers a way to use their purchasing power to make the world better rather than worse. We wanted to provide
Our coffee of the month is the perfect Christmas gift for coffee lovers lovers! Send a different pound of our delicious Bird Friendly® of coffee every month. Or the same one each month if you prefer. Or every other
Our new Coffee Songbirds Calendar for 2014 is Available Now! This beautiful Calendar speaks for itself. Each month a different migratory songbird with text by Pulitzer Prize nominee Scott Weidensaul and a map of summer and winter territory courtesy of Cornell Lab
About us: We are the cafe part of Canada’s leading roaster of Certified Bird Friendly coffee. Our location is unique – unlike any other we’ve seen. Out back we have a lovely patio with a view of Lake Ontario and
Bergamot, a native wildflower, in our Cafe garden Bees in a felled tree on a Bird Friendly Coffee Farm There have been a number of disturbing reports about mass bee die offs in the news recently – such as this
Picture taken by Scott Weidensaul on this trip Marvin Venega with a cacao pod Marvin’s kids try birding A guest post for Earth Day from Scott Weidensaul, one of our “Voices for the Birds” (http://www.scottweidensaul.com) In January, I had the
We are often asked how much coffee to use to brew the perfect cup. Well, the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) provides expert advice on all things coffee and the brewing ratio they suggest is 55g of coffee for
A guest post from Jefferson Shriver and Gabriela Narvaez are Owners of Gaia Estate, Diriamba, Nicaragua: The planet is becoming an increasingly inhospitable place for agriculture. This is especially the case with full sun, rain fed monocrops grown in the tropics where
You will notice a new Fair Trade logo on our website and packaging this month. There have been some changes in the fair trade system this year, and, we are now licensed with a different certifier: Fair Trade USA. Their
Human activity has had a dramatic effect on our world. Shopping malls stand where forests once stood. A once pristine beach is now a concrete wall at the foot of a condominium. Factories pollute our rivers. Trawlers are racing to
We are no longer selling bottled water at the cafe. [update: we now sell boxed water if you want it to go] I saw a Pop! Tech talk with Chris Jordan about a month ago. He wanted to engage us in
Last week, on Earth Day I happened to see a broadcast of American Experience’s “Earth Days” documentary on PBS. I’ve been thinking about it ever since. Did you know that the first Earth Day was organized 42 years ago and
At Birds and Beans we don’t do anything different on Earth Day. Don’t get me wrong, its not that we don’t appreciate the other guys giving some notice to the environment one day a year. Every little bit helps. If we
Enjoying a great cup of coffee… For me it represents the culmination of all the attention that has gone into growing and harvesting, roasting, brewing, and at last, tasting it. I feel connected to the whole process and I show
This post is to bring you a few of the beautiful photographs taken by Vincent Falardeau in our back garden in the Long Branch neighbourhood of the City of Toronto. These birds spend their winters on shade coffee farms in
The mainstream media has picked up the crisis of a small population of orangutans this week. Their habitat in Indonesia has been relentlessly brought to ruin by palm oil producers over several decades. According to RainforestPortal.org “The globally exceptional Tripa peat
Earth Hour is actually a pretty good idea. It gives people a visible way to express their concern for the environment. As we are such social creatures, it spread from Sidney, Australia, all around the world and has become a
Carved Baltimore Oriole before being applied to our cafe mural Upslope is a shade coffee farm. Downslope is sun coffee. Birding On Gaia Estate Something we get asked often about our name — “I get the Beans, but what’s the
Welcome the the Birds and Beans Blog! About 10 years ago we set out on this journey of sustainable business, coffee and birds – and from now on we’re going to share the journey with you on this blog. We love animals,
We want to share with you the amazing taste experience of pre-industrial coffee. Through the industrialization of our food supplies, we have lost the simple pleasures of exquisite taste. Flavour and quality are routinely sacrificed for shelf life and transportability and sustainable
Pouring espresso Receiving a Shipment Thanksgiving latté art. Always thankful, always giving. Exquisite TasteTaste it yourself to see what we mean! Check our coffee listing. There is something to suit any flavour preference. Freshness GuaranteeBirds and Beans was the first roaster
Kenn Kaufman describes his experience birding on a Bird Friendly® coffee farm in Nicaragua in the May/June print issue of Bird Watcher’s Digest. Its reposted here on the Birds and Beans USA site. Madeleine and David received the Michael O’Connor Thompson Award at the
