Agro Coffee Roasters

We’re excited to introduce our latest seasonal coffee, sourced from the stunning Mount Elgon, an extinct volcano straddling Uganda and Kenya.

With its rich soil, ideal elevation, biological wealth and dedicated farming communities, this anaerobic natural coffee is a true reflection of Elgon’s unique terroir.

Enjoy complex notes of passion fruit, orange, and brown sugar— this coffee is a testament to the expertise and passion of the farmers behind this microlot.

Grab yours now on our website or at select retail partners!

We’re hiring! We’re looking for someone amazing to join our Production Team and work alongside this awesome human being in the photo, Gerardo. This is a full-time position, no weekends required. Production will be your main focus, but must have a valid driver’s license and be comfortable driving a small van to occasionally help with deliveries. Head to our website for a full job description. Link in bio. $20-23/hour + benefits and three weeks vacation.

Really good coffee on the go. Think camping, hiking, staying at places with questionable coffee options 🫣 or even to just have at home for those days you hit snooze a few too many times. Just add water, no brewing equipment required. All in a fully compostable package. Currently available in Ethiopia Light Roast and Peru Medium Roast.

We’re on a roll here and just released another seasonal: a Caturra Chiroso lactic fermentation from Huila, Colombia— definitely not something we come across every day, so the excitement at the roastery is real 😆.

Chiroso comes from an Ethiopian landrace variety, and it was initially believed to be a natural mutation of Caturra, but with longer-shaped cherries. Because of this, local producers started referring to it as Caturra Chiroso. It often stands out for its sweet and complex flavour profiles: floral components similar to Geshas, but a bit more herbal and with more sweetness and body.

Juliana Guevara and Wbeimar Lasso really delivered on this one. It’s VERY juicy and floral with nice sweet notes of tamarind candy and blueberry.

Available online and at select retail partners.

n e w r e l e a s e | we just dropped our freshest seasonal: a fully washed, bourbon from Rwanda. This super juicy coffee is part of Sucafina’s Isimbi program, and every bag purchased supports a coffee tree rejuvenation project through Farmgate Initiative. Besides a number of environmental sustainability, farmer training, and yield and quality improvement activities, our in-country partner focus, particularly, in gender equality opportunities and supports several women’s cooperatives by helping them access land, seedling and reach a market for their beautiful coffees.

Grown at an altitude of up to 2,000m above sea level, you can expect notes of raisin, red grape and maple syrup in this fruity + sweet coffee.

Starting off 2024 with a new seasonal coffee we’re jazzed about: a sun dried, washed Arusha-Mundo Novo-Typica from Papua New Guinea, grown and harvested by Timuza Coffee. The cooperative represents 200ish truly small-holder farmers of the Kamano tribal group in Kainantu, with land size averaging 1.4 hectares per family, where they also grow food, such as taro and cassava.

It’s sweet, crisp and fragrant, and makes a beautiful pour over.

Available on our website and at some retail partners. 💚

Gift cards are now available online and at the roastery ✨

We’ve been meaning to post about this coffee since its release a month ago, but… life as a small business 🙃 we’re down to the last couple of sacks, so if you want to snag some bags before it’s gone, now is the time.

The Shilcho Coop is part of the Sidama Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union, one of the largest in Ethiopia with 53 member cooperatives supporting 80,000 households in the region. Being part of such a robust group allows small producers access to things such as micro-credit loans, environmental training, healthcare initiatives, life insurance and educational opportunities for the families. Not to mention voting power and higher returns from the direct exportation that unions are capable of, as well as organic certification which, besides its environmental benefits, provides price protection and meaningful leverage in such a competitive marketplace.

These Indigenous Cultivars cherries are delivered daily to Shilcho’s processing site where it is sorted, depulped, and fermented overnight in water, which is replenished multiple times during the fermentation period to ensure clean, white, and contaminant-free parchment.

It’s a light roast and its peach candy and orange blossom notes are giving us all the summer vibes. We’re loving it hot and iced.

Get it now on our website or at some of our retail partners.

Our second seasonal release is actually a new batch of the washed Timor-Leste we launched last summer, much loved by many of you. This new harvest is bringing out some really interesting notes of green apple, vanilla and fig. 🤤

While small in scale compared to other nations, coffee production is the main source of income for 1/4 of the population living in this very young republic. Timor-Leste achieved full independence in 2002 after almost 500 years of consecutive occupation. Coffee, however, is not new in the region and actually play an important role in coffee’s history, being the originator of a cultivar, now named Timor Hybrid, found is almost every producing country today.

We’re stoked to be working with again this year and hope that you enjoy this coffee as much as we are at the roastery.

It’s available now on our website and at select retail partners.

New releases! We just launched three new season coffees (all at once 🙃🙃) that are just 🤌🏽. A Timor-Leste, a Costa Rica and an Ethiopia Sidama. We’ll share more info about the coffees and the people behind them in the next posts, starting with Costa Rica.

When 97% of the land you own is dedicate to forest preservation, you know this is the real deal. Roberto Montero and his family are producing some of the best coffees in Costa Rica while being at the forefront of environmental and wildlife preservation in the country. Fun fact: La Amistad International Park — the largest natural reserve in Central America — can be found in Roberto’s original land.

This fully washed coffee was grown in volcanic loam soil at 1,200-1,500m altitude. The coffee is light and bright, with lime and snow pea notes, and caramel sweetness.

Available now!

We’re so excited about the new honey process Uganda that we just released in our seasonal lineup.

This coffee was grown in the Mount Elgon region, an extinct volcano, and arguably where some of the best organic coffee is coming from in Africa.

The group behind, .harvest, is a “very young and big-thinking group (…) dedicated to long-term economic and environmental sustainability for smallholders on Mt. Elgon”, as .coffee.inc puts it. This fairly young organization now works with 850 smallholder farmers in 8 communities in the region, with each farm growing about 600-1,000 coffee trees.

This is a delicate light roast that is giving us hints of red grapes, hibiscus and brown sugar.

It’s available now at our online store, and will be sold at some of our retail partners starting this week.

Thank you to everyone who has been patiently waiting for our new seasonal releases 🫣. The first one is here and it’s is a beautiful, floral & sweet, washed indigenous heirloom from the Oromia region in Ethiopia.

There’s so much to love about this coffee besides its peachy, rose bud notes. The Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union is the largest unionization of farmers in Ethiopia 💪🏾 and responsible for some really incredible programs to support its members, such as the creation of the Cooperative Bank of Oromia, which provides pre-harvest financing and crop insurance— resources historically unavailable to rural farmers in Ethiopia. The Coop also funds organic farming and food security programs for the farmers and their families, among other forward-thinking initiatives.

Being certified fair trade and organic means fairer wages to farmers, clean water for their kids to drink, and healthier and more diverse flora and fauna. 🤍

It’s available now on our website and it’ll be reaching some of our partner cafes in the coming weeks.

Looking for a thoughtful gift for the coffee lover in your life? We are now offering prepaid subscriptions! Pick one of six available plans and save 10% on your order. Available at agroroasters.com ♥️

n e w r e l e a s e. Our second release of the season is a natural, light roast from Marcala, Honduras. It’s a delicate, bright coffee with fruity papaya and orange notes.

The group of farmers responsible for growing these beautiful beans is one of the most progressive coops in the country, Café Orgánico Marcala Sociedad Anónima (COMSA).

initiatives go from running a training center on organic and sustainable farming practices for coops around Honduras and beyond, creating experimental plots for trialing new processing techniques, beekeeping as a source of extra income diversification and natural medicine for coop members, and even creating an international bilingual school for children of coop members and farm laborers— and offering scholarships to 80-90% of the kids ranging from 6 months to 17 years old.

Honduras continues to make headway to become one of the world’s premier specialty coffee producers, not only due to its right growing conditions, fertile soils and a variety of microclimates; but also its forward-thinking and innovative farming practices, and strong cooperative movement.

Agro’s Honduras Marcala is available now online and at select retailers in the Lower Mainland.

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n e w r e l e a s e. We just launched two new single origin coffees in our seasonal lineup — a washed Ethiopia and a natural Honduras (more on the latter soon!).

Our Ethiopian beans come from the well-known and sought-after Yirgacheffe district in Sidamo, a region in the southern part of the country, known as one of coffee’s birth region.

One of the things that makes Ethiopian coffees so special is the diversity of flavours due to its genetic diversity and traditional methods of cultivation, including manual harvesting and drying systems.

Not only do they produce incredibly high quality coffee mostly by hand, most producers in Ethiopia are still smallholders who typically intercrop coffee plants with other food crops, keeping their lands rich and providing food for their families.

This coffee has cupped beautifully, and you can expect notes of yellow plum and lemon meringue in your brew. Available now in our website.

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n e w r e l e a s e. We just launched two new single origin coffees in our seasonal lineup — a washed Ethiopia and a natural Honduras (more on the latter soon!).

Our Ethiopian beans come from the well-known and sought-after Yirgacheffe district in Sidamo, a region in the southern part of the country, known as one of coffee’s birth region.

One of the things that makes Ethiopian coffees so special is the diversity of flavours due to its genetic diversity and traditional methods of cultivation, including manual harvesting and drying systems.

Not only do they produce incredibly high quality coffee mostly by hand, most producers in Ethiopia are still smallholders who typically intercrop coffee plants with other food crops, keeping their lands rich and providing food for their families.

This coffee has cupped beautifully, and you can expect notes of yellow plum and lemon meringue in your brew. Available now in our website.

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Contest Alert! Enter for the chance to join us at Canada’s largest independent specialty coffee
festival this summer!

is returning to Vancouver Aug 20-21 and we’re giving away a Weekend Pass for you and a buddy. Experience tastings, lessons in how to make really good coffee, plus food, music, and more!

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The contest is open to residents in the Lower Mainland only and will close *August 16*. The lucky winner will be randomly selected and notified via direct message. Good luck!!

n e w c o f f e e. Our latest seasonal release is a timor hybrid + typica, washed process from Ducarai village in Timor-Leste. This light roast brings out notes of prune, almond and molasses.

These beans were grown and hand-harvested by nine select farmers in partnership with , a social enterprise and exporter who has been working in the region for over a decade, carrying out the work started by >> check the link in our bio for an interview with Armando de Araujo to learn more about the incredible work these two organizations do. Interview and photo of Fiomeno de Deus courtesy of .

Available now on agroroasters.com.

Sneak peek of our new bags. 😍

Our new double-sided design will allow retailers to choose how to display our bags: with the traditional logo and label combo, or this fun illustration created by .

And peace out tie ties! You’ve served us well, but we’re stoked to replace you with zippers. 😎

Stay tuned for updates on launch date!

Agro Coffee Roasters updated their business hours.

Agro Coffee Roasters updated their address.

Our new shipping boxes have arrived! These would make a great gift in the mail for far away friends and family, or for loved ones near by. Or just something nice for yourself! As usual, free shipping on orders $40+ anywhere in Canada.

Want to support your local coffee community? From today until the 24th we are donating $2 per bag of this coffee to the Canadian Chapter of the Specialty Coffee Association to make competitions more accessible by reducing registration fees. Link to purchase in bio.

This light roast, Black Honey coffee produced by the wonderful Ubaldo Gonzales brings out notes of guava, lime and marshmallow. It’s a definite winner!

n e w c o f f e e. Our newest release is a light roast, Black Honey micro lot coffee from San Jose, Honduras. Think guava, lime and marshmallow all in one sip. And this is Ubaldo Gonzales, the founding member of the coop where these beans were grown— the first ever cooperative of small and medium organize coffee growers in Honduras.

Available now at agroroasters.shipsbeans.com.

Ubaldo’s photo courtesy of our friends .coffee.inc.

We have moved! It's been 3 years in the making, an unbelievable amount of permits, delays, wait and more wait; architects, engineers, renovations, more wait. And what at times seemed like a never ending project, finally came to completion. We're beyond excited about this new phase for Agro and what the new space will allow us to accomplish.

Our Clark location served us well for years, but we had long outgrown that space. We'll miss the friends we made on that block and our amazing neighbours, including Icy Cool Automotive, .co , , and so many others. Thank you for all the fun and memories together, and please don't be a stranger!

Although we will not have a cafe at the new roastery, you can still stop by to pick up your online orders at 1359 Powell St -- a 5-min walk from our old location. There's still no sign outside (we're working on it!), but we're right next door to our pals at . Come say hi!

Our second summer release is out! This is our first time bringing in coffee from Bolivia and we’re stoked. With juicy green apple and lemon ice tea notes, this bright coffee is the definition of summer.

Bolivia is South America's only landlocked coffee producing country, and is the smallest exporter of coffee on the continent. Their dedication to producing high quality, organic coffee despite logistical and geographical challenges, is remarkable, and we couldn’t be prouder to support them.

Available for a limited time on our online store.

We stopped celebrating Canada Day a couple of years ago. This year won’t be different. We’ve been reflecting, learning and talking a lot about residential schools and Indigenous affairs in general at home these last few weeks. Our hearts broke time and time again as we listened to stories of survivors, while watching our own son play outside. The thought of having our child taken away from us, and imaging him go through what Indigenous kids did at those horrific facilities sickens us. Tomorrow and beyond we will be mourning for all the lives lost, we will continue to listen to their stories, and we will be demanding accountability and repair from the government and the churches. We will also celebrate their beautiful and rich cultures by listening to Indigenous music and reading books by Indigenous authors and artists to our son. We hope each of you will take the day to reflect and take action. - Marina and Dusty

We will be donating 5% of all our online sales for the entire month of July to our neighbours Vancouver Aboriginal Child And Family Services Society .

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We stopped celebrating Canada Day a couple of years ago. This year won’t be different. We’ve been reflecting, learning and talking a lot about residential schools and Indigenous affairs in general at home these last few weeks. Our hearts broke time and time again as we listened to stories of survivors, while watching our own son play outside. The thought of having our child taken away from us, and imaging him go through what Indigenous kids did at those horrific facilities sickens us. Tomorrow and beyond we will be mourning for all the lives lost, we will continue to listen to their stories, and we will be demanding accountability and repair from the government and the churches. We will also celebrate their beautiful and rich cultures by listening to Indigenous music and reading books by Indigenous authors and artists to our son. We hope each of you will take the day to reflect and take action. - Marina and Dusty

We will be donating 5% of all our online sales for the entire month of July to our neighbours Vancouver Aboriginal Child And Family Services Society .

Images by .

Fine tuning the new roaster at the new location. 🔥🤫

Stay tuned.