OUR COMMITMENTS:
- All purchases from Certified Organic Co-operatives.
- All purchases at or above Fair Trade prices.
- Commitment to Café Femenino "Pay it Forward" minimum of 5 cents per pound donated to women's causes locally and internationally.
- Annual Organic and Transfair audits of our roasting facility at our expense.
- Freshly Roasted Coffee that's never warehoused.
ABOUT US:
- We are a small specialty coffee roaster in Salmon Arm, BC
- We are Certified Organic and Licensed Fair Trade, because we believe it is important to support the agencies that keep the trail transparent from farmer to consumer.
- We do not warehouse roasted coffee...ever!
- 90% of our locations are within one hour of Salmon Arm.
- Our coffee is personally delivered within our one-hour “delivery zone and we use reuseable tote bins instead of single-use cardboard boxes.”
- We roast and ship on the same day for all of our “out-of-town” orders.
- For almost all of our locations, we custom-fill our orders and rotate our own stock.
- We embraced the first Café Femenino project (Peru) 5 years ago and have added each new Café Femenino country as they have become available.
- 12.5 cents per pound goes into our pay-it-forward fund which then goes to support local women's charities as well as the Café Femenino Foundation. To date: over $6,000.
- We are like the “big guys” used to be!
OUR MISSION STATEMENT:
The Shuswap Coffee Company Ltd. is proud to offer only Certified Organic Certified Fair Trade coffee. We have made it our mandate to help to ensure the long-term health of both the coffee communities and the environment in which the coffee is grown. We believe in roasting great coffee, but not at the expense of the farmers that produce it.
The change that fair trade wages have made in the lives of farmers is remarkable and long overdue. To do our green beans and their farmers justice, we roast each batch with delicate care and precision to offer you, our customers, the very best tasting coffee.
