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Salt Spring Coffee
Canada
The Story
Salt Spring Coffee is a Canadian roastery based on Salt Spring Island, BC, specializing in single-origin and blended coffees roasted in small batches. They're known for direct trade relationships with farmers and commitment to sustainable sourcing practices.
Oras Index
· 69/100Good to Know
Salt Spring Coffee demonstrates genuine commitment to direct trade and single-origin sourcing, but we could not find publicly available lot numbers, harvest dates, or named-farm specificity that would unlock the full 12-point origin transparency ceiling. Their B Corp certification is verifiable and strong; direct-trade relationships appear authentic but pricing transparency (to confirm the 2× commodity premium benchmark) is not consistently published across their range. Packaging uses standard recyclable materials but lacks visible FSC certification on secondary packaging or evidence of a brand-operated refill program—areas for growth. Roast dates appear to be available but not universally stamped across all SKUs. No named Q grader or master roaster pedigree is publicly disclosed, which limits craft-processing credibility scoring. We could not confirm USDA Organic across the full range, so the B Corp certification alone anchors their ethics score.
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