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The Artery Community Roasters

    Locally Roasted Coffee

  • Location: Ottawa, ON
  • Established: 2020
"At The Artery Community Roasters, we are proud to employ a diverse group of people with disabilities."

In 2020, Will started The Artery Community Roasters with the goal of creating rewarding jobs for people living with disabilities, and roast delicious, direct trade coffee.

All employees at The Artery are living with disabilities, with wages starting at $19.60 an hour, increasing steadily. In most provinces, people with disabilities earn between 70 and 75 percent of the income earned by people without disabilities. Many also face significant barriers to finding meaningful employment at all. The Artery Community Roastery works to play a part in changing this.

Plus their coffee is delicious. Freshly roasted on innovative fluid bed roasters, they sell direct trade coffee that we source through their friends at Semilla Coffee, who are coffee advocates and small-scale importers who care. Allowing them to build genuine relationships with the same farmers year after year.

Watch our podcast episode with Will here on youtube to learn even more!

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