water, water everywhere…

Popular refrain aside, there might be water everywhere but very little of it is fit to drink.

Although global warming is getting all of the news, but we are forgetting that water quality is in serious decline.

Despite assurances about the safety of our municipal water systems, we think that we can do better. Therefore, our store has a very extensive and expensive commercial water filtration system. Yes, it makes no money for us and it costs more to maintain than we make on this service, however, we believe that everyone should have access to the best quality water available.

Priced at 20 cents/ litre. Buy one of our water containers and your first fill is free!

tremendous herb sale

Selected bulk herbs are now 50% off!

[Ed. note: sale is now over.]

coffee myth – “darker is better”

Sometimes we catch the odd customer peering intently at our coffee beans with a comment that they wished the roast was darker.

We’re not sure where the myth ,” dark roast is better” however we are pretty sure part of the blame lies with practise of dumping small quantities of espresso into huge quantities of milk.

The coffee beans had to be burnt to a crisp in order to taste anything.

The coffee pros know otherwise – lighter is better so you can better discern the flavours of the origins.

If you burn everything to charcoal, you will taste charcoal. So remember – lighter is better!

price decreases

With the US$ falling, we have noted that a number of U.S based products have been falling in price due to the strength of the CDN$. We are passing these price decreases directly to our customers.