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Climate Change and Bird Friendly Coffee
Agro-forestry offers ecological resilience and sequesters carbon.
Profile Roasting for 20 years!
Our love of all things coffee permeates our lives! What began as an ecological endeavour to make certified Bird Friendly coffee available to our community…
What Bird Friendly® Looks Like in Nicaragua
Picture taken by Scott Weidensaul on this trip Marvin Venega with a cacao pod Marvin’s kids try birding the lush habitat on a Bird Friendly
FairTrade, direct trade and trading fairly
Just like greenwashing, “social responsibility washing” is a problem for consumers.
What is Specialty Coffee?
At its best, specialty coffee can exhibit more flavour molecules than wine! Flavours of fruit, chocolate, nuts, caramel, spices, flower and more can be found
Coffee Freshness and Roast Dating
Did you know that at its peak, specialty coffee has even more flavour compounds than wine? When everything is just right, specialty coffees…
Musing on Coffee Tasting
Random thoughts about coffee flavour and what impacts our experience.
Third Wave? … We wave back :)
When we first started roasting coffee about 25 years ago, specialty coffee drinkers expected a very dark roast. This was the trend set by Starbucks.