As more coffee brands are going organic, a Richmond-based coffee company is taking sustainability a step further.
Salt Spring Coffee, which was founded on the eponymous island in 1996 but has operated in north Richmond since 2010, announced last month it will be offering Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC) coffee, possibly the first regenerative coffee brand in Canada.
While organic farming centres largely around what farmers can’t do, including not using chemicals, regenerative agriculture puts more requirements on what farmers do for the soil, with a focus on soil health.
“The soil gets tested for micro-organisms and all healthy bacteria in the soil…. if you do the crop properly, then you can actually help mitigate carbon,
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