Coffee Processing 101

The journey from seed to cup is a long and interesting one. Processing coffee, or turning cherries into dried coffee beans, is a fundamental step in that journey, yet it is sometimes overlooked or ...

The Importance of Transparency: A Trip to Indonesia, Part 1

Visiting parters at origin is very important. It increases transparency and allows us to understand and help our farming partners overcome the challenges that they face. The post The Importance of...

Local Foodies Unite at Feast of Fields

The Salt Spring Coffee team joined chefs, farmers, fishers, ranchers, food artisans, vintners, brewers and distillers from across BC at Feast of Fields. The post Local Foodies Unite at Feast of Fi...

Celebrate Local at Feast of Fields

Feast of Fields is an annual harvest festival and fundraising event for Farm Folk City Folk, a non-profit society in support of a local, sustainable food system. Their projects support farmers and ...

The Spirit of Biodynamic Farming

Over the past couple of weeks, we were able to get to know Cesar (son of Dagoberto Marin, our biodynamic farmer in Peru) better. Cesar was visiting from Peru to learn more about coffee roasting, br...

Introducing Our Limited Edition Handcrafted Silk Screen Posters

As pioneers, the Salt Spring Coffee team is continually looking for ways to innovate, and with the help of creative partners at Exhibit A: Design Group and our friends at French Paper Co., we’ve be...

Join a people-powered campaign to promote local food and drink on Vancouver Island

Quality has always been a cornerstone of Salt Spring Coffee’s values as a artisan roaster of organic coffee. The process started with our founders who in the 1980s grew a large organic garden on Sa...

In 2012 we sharpened our focus and made significant gains with our core programs

2012 was a year of refinement for Salt Spring Coffee. We continued to push the envelope on pioneering sustainable business practices, we deepened our relationships with the farmers who grow our cof...

People Power: The Best Solution to Coffee Cup Waste

When you’re given the choice between paper or plastic bags at the grocery store, what’s the best option? Neither of course, because you’ve brought your own. The same is true for coffee cups. Salt S...

We donate 1% of our annual revenue to environmental projects

If humanity is going to transition into an era of sustainability, we are going to have to balance profit with protecting the planet. For sixteen years Salt Spring Coffee has been doing exactly this...