Salt Spring Coffee Really Chips In to Help Their Growers.

I recently attended a ‘cupping’ (coffee tasting) at Salt Spring Coffee’s offices in Richmond BC. This local company, founded on the BC island it is named for, has some of the tastiest roasts around, organic and fair-trade to boot. But they do a lot more than just importing and roasting great coffee.

Salt Spring supports Fair to Farmer Direct™, a third-party-certified program that goes beyond the traditional trade relationship. This means the company does a lot more for the small organic coffee growers:

• They purchase coffee from certified organic farms and co-ops only
• They pay farmers more than the fair trade base price
• They encourage long-term purchasing contracts
• They visit Fair to Farmer Direct coffee growing communities at least once every three years; many once a year

But sometimes even that is not enough. While visiting coffee co-ops in northeastern Nicaragua last March, Salt Spring made good on a project that’s been in the works for three years - delivering chippers to help make organic compost from readily available farming waste. Check out the video.

It shows that when you decide to buy Salt Spring Coffee at London Drugs, you’re getting a whole lot more than great tasting cup of java.

Feel the Green Love this Valentines and help give a Million Dollars to Food Banks!

Here’s a heartfelt Valentine’s Day gift that says ‘I want our high-fiber love to live forever!’ And to share the love, for each bag sold, Nature's Path will donate an equal value, up to $1 million in cash and food, to food banks!
Nature’s Path makes some of the best organic cereals around, and their new line of Love Crunch Granola takes it over the top. Check out these flavours:

Apple Crumble - with tart organic green apple pieces, roasted organic pecans and cinnamon.

Aloha Blend - Toasted coconut, juicy pineapple and white chocolate chunks. It’s like a crunchy pina colada for breakfast!

Dark Chocolate & Red Berries - Chocolate covered strawberries and raspberries! Made with real organic Italian chocolate, organic freeze dried berries and organic flax seeds. Each has at least 14 grams of whole grains per serving and no cholesterol, sodium or trans fat. Crazy love!

Bring a little Love Crunch to your morning. It’s a breakfast romance that you can keep going all year long!