Written By Guest Writer Coffee & Tea / Libations / Victoria Dec 18, 2017 Level Ground Trading Moves Up to New State-of-the-Art Headquarters SHARE VIA: Facebook Twitter PinterestVictoria, BC – Level Ground Trading, Victoria’s Fair Trade pioneer, is moving from their current location in Central Saanich, to a larger custom-designed facility only 1 km away. The new location move will double the company’s capacity and allow them to invite the public for tours and tastings of their exceptional coffees in their new Tasting Room. “Our new facility offers countless advantages, “says one of Level Ground’s co-founders, Stacey Toews. “We will be able to bring our team together in a dynamic, larger space where we look forward to welcoming visitors and the public. We’ve purpose-built the facility for tours, with 17 viewing windows into production and packaging. And, finally, it offers the chance to set up a Tasting Room, allowing us invite people into a beautiful space and leave with an impression of quality coffee with stories of connection behind it.”The Tasting Room, which will open in the summer of 2018, will feature a Slow Bar, allowing guests to test-drive Level Ground products, as well as the chance to join in the “cupping” process, while learning more about this ritual that serves coffee quality maintenance. The move to new headquarters at 1757 Sean Heights (just up the hill from the current address!) will happen in the coming weeks, Level Ground Trading will be open for business at their new home on Jan. 2, 2018.About Level Ground Trading: Level Ground Trading started in 1997 when four families came together with the idea of improving the lives of disadvantaged producers through trade. Level Ground’s first Fair Trade initiative was buying coffee from a cooperative in Colombia. From there, trade relationships were formed in Bolivia, Peru, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and D.R. Congo. Trade relationships were also started with small-scale tea growers in India, heirloom rice farmers and coconut oil producers in the Philippines and finally with spice farmers in Sri Lanka and vanilla growers in Uganda.The mission of Level Ground Trading is to trade fairly and directly with small-scale producers in developing countries, offering customers ethical choices. The company’s vision is to alleviate poverty in developing countries through Direct Fair Trade.At home in Victoria BC, Level Ground sends nothing to landfill, pays staff to bicycle to work and reclaims their packaging for upcycling and composting.For more information visit: www.levelground.com SHARE VIA: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Written By: Guest Writer We get many people writing guest articles for us, as well as past contributors. This is the Guest ... Read More You may also like Coffee & Tea March 7, 2017 Is Your Coffee in Season? GROWING UP IN MANITOBA TAUGHT ME TO APPRECIATE SEASONAL fruits and vegetables. Unlike Vancouver Island, Manitoba has a brief growing season. All of ... Read More Coffee & Tea / Interesting Locals April 22, 2016 The Caffe Fantastico Story “A full of beans love story for owners Ryan and Kristy Taylor.” It’s a Thursday morning at Caffe Fantastico. You are standing in line ... Read More Coffee & Tea / First Look / Victoria December 23, 2015 Hide + Seek Coffee: A New Coffee Shop in Oak Bay If you are a visitor to Oak Bay village, you may have noticed the papered window in one of the empty stores in the historic Bell Block. In a clean, ... Read More Coffee & Tea August 10, 2015 An Interview with Oughtred Coffee’s Director of Coffee & Co-owner Michael Oughtred Oughtred Coffee & Tea has been roasting and selling coffee in Nanaimo since 1973. Over the years they have grown to serve much of Western ... Read More Coffee & Tea May 25, 2015 Nitro-Infused Coffee is THE Thing This Summer ... Read More Coffee & Tea / Vancouver May 11, 2015 Elysian Coffee Roastery Back in 2000, Elysian Coffee opened its first café around the corner from Vancouver’s Fifth Avenue Cinemas. It did things differently from the ... Read More Comments are closed.
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