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June 12th, 2009, 12:39 PM
Thought I would try to find a new coffee the other day as I realized the coffee I drink isn't fair trade or organic, and I discovered Kicking Horse Coffee. (http://www.kickinghorsecoffee.com/) I ground the "Three Sisters" blend today...it's wonderful, full bodied, and grinding from whole bean makes it taste so fresh.
Anyone else try it?
ETA: Oh my God! they are from my home province! LOL never realized.
"What are you two schmucks going to do with your lives? Sell coffee from your garage?"
That taunt from Elana Rosenfeld's mother may well have been the kick-start she and partner Leo Johnson needed to embrace Kicking Horse Coffee as their livelihood. Because the two young entrepreneurs did, in fact, do just that in 1996 from their rural home in the small Canadian Rocky Mountain town of Invermere, BC.
Roasting coffee in their skivvies when it was hot out, balancing babies and experimenting with different products, the allure was clearly there. However they had a lot of learning to do. Curious customers, Elana admits, would often inquire about the presence of pine needles shipped with their orders. Boxes stacked on the couple's front porch, due to a total lack of storage space inside, never quite seemed impervious to the elements.
But that was a long time ago. A lot's changed since then. Now employing 15 people and occupying a 20,000 square-foot office building and roasting facility, Kicking Horse Coffee is Canada's number one Organic Fair Trade coffee. Still based in the same East Kootenay town they sought out for the roots of their outdoor lifestyle, the Kicking Horse Coffee brand supports 30 different blends of organic Fair Trade coffee, organic and Fair Trade tea and organic chocolate. Roasts like the famous 454 Horse Power and the instantly recognizable Kick Ass Coffee™ blends are now available in most national grocery chains across Canada as well as right here at www.kickinghorsecoffee.com."
Anyone else try it?
ETA: Oh my God! they are from my home province! LOL never realized.
"What are you two schmucks going to do with your lives? Sell coffee from your garage?"
That taunt from Elana Rosenfeld's mother may well have been the kick-start she and partner Leo Johnson needed to embrace Kicking Horse Coffee as their livelihood. Because the two young entrepreneurs did, in fact, do just that in 1996 from their rural home in the small Canadian Rocky Mountain town of Invermere, BC.
Roasting coffee in their skivvies when it was hot out, balancing babies and experimenting with different products, the allure was clearly there. However they had a lot of learning to do. Curious customers, Elana admits, would often inquire about the presence of pine needles shipped with their orders. Boxes stacked on the couple's front porch, due to a total lack of storage space inside, never quite seemed impervious to the elements.
But that was a long time ago. A lot's changed since then. Now employing 15 people and occupying a 20,000 square-foot office building and roasting facility, Kicking Horse Coffee is Canada's number one Organic Fair Trade coffee. Still based in the same East Kootenay town they sought out for the roots of their outdoor lifestyle, the Kicking Horse Coffee brand supports 30 different blends of organic Fair Trade coffee, organic and Fair Trade tea and organic chocolate. Roasts like the famous 454 Horse Power and the instantly recognizable Kick Ass Coffee™ blends are now available in most national grocery chains across Canada as well as right here at www.kickinghorsecoffee.com."