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Specialties
Freshly roasted coffee. Buy a drink made by us or a bag of beans to brew at home.
Simple, delicious sandwiches made with fresh ingredients from local bakers, butchers, and canners!
Sweets to go with your coffee — of the glutenous and gluten-free variety.
History
Established in 1998.
We’ve been roasting coffee since 1998, serving the Ottawa valley through partner cafes, restaurants, and grocery stores. Our café in Almonte is in the same building as our roasting facility. In 2014, we opened a second café — this time, in Ottawa proper (well, the little «village» of Westboro!).
From the beginning, we’ve been driven by fairer trading partnerships with producers, better tasting coffee for our customers, and constantly improving our craft in small-scale fresh roasting!
Meet the Business Owner
Craig H.
Business Owner
In the late 1990s, Craig had just completed a degree in International Development from Trent University where he learned all about the exploitation of small-scale farmers in the coffee industry. The Fair Trade Certification movement was just getting started and he wanted to take part in it. Craig realized that by providing high quality fair trade and organic coffee, we, the privileged North, could begin to help our neighbours in the South, thus «Equate“ing the benefit for all — inspiration for our name! Craig, Amber, and the Equator team continue to work directly with farmers and have visited cooperatives in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico, The Dominican Republic, Peru, Rwanda, Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda.
