About
Us
We
(Mary Whitney and husband John Barker) have been roasting coffee for
years, keeping careful records. We used to purchase green beans
wholesale from the Green Beanery in Toronto. Now our beans are
purchased in burlap bags the way they are shipped from producers. We
are clients of Canadian wholesalers/importers who sell quality green
beans, some of them direct trade, Fair Trade Organic (FTO) and Rainforest Alliance (RFA).
Being a couple of seniors we struggle to "heft" the bags of green
beans; but, the quality and prices are good and the service and
information are helpful. "SHaBean" our roastery name is an invented word/name. In the
Americas many high end single source beans have after the name of the
specialty coffee the upper case letters (SHB). SHB stands for Strictly
Hard Bean. We used SHB to make the name "SHaBean."
One also
often sees the the designation (SHG) after these specialty coffees and
that stands for Strictly High Grown. But we have not invented a new word
from SHG.
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