Dryer sheets, along with other scented household products including fabric softeners, contain a cocktail of industrial chemicals. As single use items, they do not biodegrade but do leach their chemicals. These convenience items are not necessary! Moss Creek Wool Works
Have you ever considered the quantity of plastic in the packaging and product of dental floss? It might be a small thing, but everything we do is small until we add it up through our lifetime and across a population.
Assessing the sustainability of products is complicated! There are many competing aspects. This describes how we curate our products.
At this time of unprecedented global upheaval, many of us are considering what really matters.
We have.
And we find ourselves deepening, broadening and refining our understanding of sustainability, and our appreciation of life’s simple pleasures.
One person in the store at a time, electronic payments, we’re going to try 9-5 daily
Petroleum based plastic is a huge and real problem. Our bags are part of the solution.
Reusable, yes. But you know we always go one further, right? We have a pool of these so you can trade your used one for a clean one. Making the right thing easier.
Expressing our values for 15 years.
Product Details This year our Christmas Coffee features a Snow Bunting. Isn’t it beautiful? Like all of our new packages it is original art drawn by the talented Rachael Riordon of Lucky Bones Studio. Some of you may know that
Our beautiful new packaging calls for a new online shopping experience! The new shop is prettier, more intuitive, and has great new features.
Try our Coffee of the Month subscription and get both convenience and variety delivered right to your door! Each month we send a different coffee from our signature line. It’s simple, just select size, quantity and subscription plan and checkout.
We are excited to finally be launching our refreshed packaging! Our redesigned bags are beautiful!
Changing to Bird Friendly coffee is
meaningful and achievable.
You have ensured you have the best coffee, great equipment and trained baristas. What could go wrong? The importance of equipment cleanliness is often overlooked.
Recently online shopping has come under scrutiny for its carbon footprint. But is the criticism universally applicable?
New biodegradable packages with full colour illustrations by Rachel Riordan!
unsplash-logoIan Schneider I tried to read our legalese Terms and Conditions and wow! So I decided to write this to try and help us understand each other. We believe we have an excellent product at a fair price. We built
As an expression of our sense of urgency for climate action, Birds and Beans will be closed between 10am and 3pm on September 27, 2019 to enable us to attend the Toronto Global Climate Strike. We stand and clearly say
We are celebrating 10 years of organic certification! We passed our first organic audit under the (then) new Canada Organic Regime in September 2009. We thought it was a good time for a packaging refresh!
New Opening Hours Starting this Weekend Starting on Saturday August 17, 2019 we will be ready to serve you at 6:30 AM Weekdays 7:00 AM Weekends Grab a bird friendly coffee to go, or linger with an organic latté. Maybe
Grab and Go Wraps are now available. And like all our offerings they are GMO free, Palm Oil Free, Cruelty Free, mostly Organic. They are hardy and delicious. And ready for you to grab in the fridge!
Resting Coffee Period Did you know that coffee needs to rest for at least a day after roasting before its flavours fully emerge? Like red wine needs to breath after opening, coffee needs to rest for Tasting is very, very
As Birds and Beans Café approaches its 15th year anniversary we decided to celebrate by launching our Curator’s Corner! Over the last 15 years we have searched high and low for […]
New blends for the Daily, a house coffee and the Bird Friendly Breakfast Blend.
This year we kick it up a notch with Ontario’s Boreal Organic and Biodynamic Fruit and a Paper Straw! If you’ve tried our organic fruit smoothie you know it is fabulous! We had no idea we could make it even
Birds and Beans Café is excited to present our latest offering: Cool Creek Apiaries Honey in a 500 gram jar. We’ve been using Cool Creek Apiaries’ unpasteurized, pure and unfiltered bulk honey in our breakfast cookies for years. It is
Thank you to Jessica Iraci for the beautiful poster this year!!! Those of you in the Toronto Area, I encourage you to come out to the 10th annual bird festival at Samuel Smith Park on Saturday May 25th! It is
Some of you might recall the viral video of the sea turtle who was lucky enough to have the plastic straw lodged in its nose removed. An article was brought to my attention today entitled “A Brief History of the
Our Mission at Birds and Beans is to use coffee, in all its capacities, to improve life on earth in the small ways we can. We choose to invest ourselves into the quality of our coffee, and into supporting our heroic growers who are the defenders of forest habitat in Latin America. We appreciate the simple pleasures of a delicious cup of Bird Friendly® coffee while discussing it’s very contribution to the diversity of life on earth. In a world of cynicism and doubt, we do better.
Warning! These images reflect the consequences of our blind consumerism. Whether you join us or not, we are not buying anything with palm oil. Because we are not going to feed the monster. Single organgutan in the last tree standing after deforestation for palm
At Birds and Beans, it is our pleasure and our aspiration to harness all of our resources and efforts to do better. And for us, better means in alignment with our core values: quality of life, sustainability, richness of experience, and
