Curated! Bringing Organic Fresh Bread to Mimico
June 11, 2020
Bringing fresh, hand crafted, organic bread to Mimico!
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Bringing fresh, hand crafted, organic bread to Mimico!
We included these in our collection because they are a delicious healthy snack with 2 ingredients: Pumpkin Seeds and salt.
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.
Celebrating International Migratory Bird Day from home with a cup of our Bird Friendly coffee
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.
Leave at Door – LAD With all the people staying home and working from home, we’ve seen a big increase in the demand for online orders to be left at people’s doors. So, what’s the best way to accomplish this?
Shipping certified Bird Friendly coffee with an extra dose of care and caring.
At this moment ask that anyone with a cough to please stay home. Even if you know you are coughing for a reason other than an infectious disease, people are scared. Please understand that coughing in a public place in this climate is not OK right now.
Petroleum based plastic is a huge and real problem. Our bags are part of the solution.
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!
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!
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
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
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