To Bean or Not To Bean

05/21/2026

Throwback to January’s El Salvador journey through coffee country.
If we all knew just how much work goes into growing coffee, we would never again take a cup for granted.
As for art and culture, Concepcion De Ataco El Salvador was truly something special.

04/25/2026

04/24/2026

All welcome! Join us anytime between 10 - 1pm this Sunday where we’ll be playing music over a community brunch - a fundraising event to help support all the amazing work they do over at The Local Community Food Centre
(beside Erie Street drive-in)
Pop in and out anytime that suits you… bring your friends - 100% of proceeds go to help programs like community meals, gardening programs, the affordable market hosted at the local every Monday and Friday (also open to all!) - and so much more.
They really are a monumental part of our community.
Hope to see you there! 

04/23/2026

From raw to roasted - for 11 years now, we’ve been cooking your coffee, doing our best to infuse art and love into the final chapter of your homebrew - supplying some pretty amazing places in Stratford, New Hamburg, Kitchener, London, and Guelph.

So much love goes into growing coffee - which is why we prioritize sourcing organic, fair and direct trade raw coffee beans (from 9 different regions of the world) - to ensure our farmers are receiving a fair wage, keeping the environment as top priority, and your beans the highest quality.
If you happen to visit us on roast days… the smell alone is magic.
It really is a labour of love from start to finish.
We appreciate the support we’ve felt all these years of cooking your beans… from roast to brew - when we say coffee is as fresh as it gets, we mean it.

04/18/2026

Green bean coffee delivery …operation relocation!

04/15/2026

Upcycle your coffee grounds!
Garden fertilizer, odor neutralizer, squirrel repellent, exfoliate, pots & pans scrub… here’s a great article with some coffee ground tips:

If you’re like most of us, you probably toss your used coffee grounds straight into the trash—or maybe the compost. But what if we told …

04/04/2026

Let your homebrew coffee set the bar like a barista. Roasted with love right here in Stratford… As fresh as it gets.
Organic, fair trade & direct trade (Farmers prioritize ethical growing practices, the environment and receive a fair wage…).
… cause life‘s too short for sh*tty coffee.

04/02/2026

100% in-house roasted
9 different countries
5 different roast levels
Fair trade and direct trade, organic coffee; local honey and treats, homebrew and coffee gear.
And always, always, our fresh roasted promise

03/08/2026

Happy nternational women’s day to these two amazing women!

They are the smiling faces that make the magic happen at To Bean when Christy isn’t there making her magic happen.

Abby and Jane are strong, kind, beautiful from the inside out women and we are grateful for both of them!!

03/08/2026

Happy international women’s day to all you wonderful women – the world wouldn’t be half of what it is without you!

On the To Bean front, we are lucky and grateful for this woman! “The Lady of the Roaster” as our dear friend Bobby Beard called her.

She puts the love in your coffee.

She puts the smiles in our hearts

She’s the brains behind the operation

And she’s ridiculously gorgeous!!!

….plus she is the best mom to her kids!!

Thank you Muddy!

02/06/2026

Bridging the gap of all that goes in to our daily brew. There’s a whole lot of love that goes into coffee.
we do our best to make sure you’re receiving only the freshest roasted beans from coffee farms around the world.
Hats off to Coffee farmers everywhere.❤️☕️

perspective

(Photo credit for the 4 muddle photos - depulping stage; the 132lb Coffee cherries; drying stage & the burlap bag of green beans - from The World Atlas ofCoffee - by James Hoffman)
The rest of the post is from our recent adventure to Coffee farms in El Salvador. Humbled by the whole experience.