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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
Orders destined for GTA and placed by 7am December 22 will arrive for Christmas.
Our beautiful new packaging calls for a new online shopping experience! The new shop is prettier, more intuitive, and has great new features.
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.
New biodegradable packages with full colour illustrations by Rachel Riordan!
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
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 humans share collective responsibility to protect the natural health of Ontario, Canada and the planet. Species at risk in Ontario We are proud to join a group of distinguished Canadians: Indigenous groups, environmental groups and progressive businesses in signing
As they come to mind, I’ll collect random bits and pieces of coffee knowledge here…Madeleine
Enjoy our great new reusable ceramic travel mug. They are handsome and practical. They hold a 16 oz beverage. The double insulating wall protects your hand from burns and insulates both hot and cold drinks. They are dishwasher safe. And we
Introducing our new smoothie made with certified organic fresh fruit. We have developed the recipe and WOW is it fabulous! Made with organic blueberries, strawberries and banana, we add only certified non-GMO coconut milk, water and ice. $6.95/20oz Enjoy this
We are proud to announce today that we are an Endorsing Organization of the Protected Places Declaration. This Declaration urges the Ontario and Canadian Governments to to protect at least 17 percent of the Canada’s land and inland waters by 2020.
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
Look, See The Bird! $16.50 by Bill Wilson (Author and Birds & Beans USA Founder), Katie Fallon (Author), Leigh Anne Carter (Illustrator). Look, See the Bird! is a beautifully illustrated children’s book which seeks to not only promote curiosity in
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.
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
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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
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
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