My most woeful moment of the trip is now upon me. In the clutches of dehydration and legs wilted by a road that carves a sinuous route along impossibly steep grades, I am close to calling it a day and trying to coerce a pick-up driver to deliver me and my bike to the top of this evil mountain. Between periods of roadside breaks, my girlfriend Tabi Ferguson is also ailing but encourages us to push on.

Congrats to Eddy and the gang up in Quebec who have now launched the french version of their site http://www.eco-cafe.ca/ .... Site and videos look mighty fine, makes you want to create your own EcoCafe in your town....!

Fair play provides a fair price. Whole communities benefit when fair trade principles are applied By TERRENCE BELFORD, Postmedia News August 26, 2010 Almost every Saturday morning, you can find Ken McGuffin outside Toronto's St. Lawrence Market selling scarves, bags, vests and an assortment of other brightly coloured goods woven by village women in Guatemala. Once every few weeks, he also distributes

We've been busy busy busy in coffee land!! We've secured a great supply of Rainforest Alliance certified coffees and locked ourselves in the lab testing all sorts of new products. We put about 15 combinations under the microscope and picked one that blew them all out of the water. So it is our pleasure to announce our new, 100% RFA Certified Blend - Spotted Frog Espresso. We've fused 3 origins and

I got the opportunity to spend the last week in Bielsko-Biala, Poland doing some consulting work for a new roasting operation. It's always a tough challenge coming in to a new culture, new market, new equipment etc. but also a great opportunity for lots of learning. We covered everything from product catalog, to operations, to marketing and I feel good saying there will be great quality coffee coming