We intend to set ourselves apart from many businesses and set the bar high serving good quality food and coffee.
Our lunches contain as many organic ingredients as possible and they are homemade on Quadra Island. Our coffee is organic, fair trade, made with beans sourced through café femenino a foundation committed to end the cycle of poverty affecting woman coffee farmers world-wide. And this special coffee is roasted right her on Quadra Island by Aroma Roasters.
People rarely think about the detrimental impacts of toxic pesticides from the Agriculture Industry on the ocean and our apex marine mammals such as whales. One of the main reasons our Resident and Biggs Orca Whales continue to be endangered and threatened under the BC Species at Risk Act (SARA) is due to bioaccumulation from toxins in the water and food chain.
Farmlands that are not organic use chemicals like Organophosphorus gas on fruits which were originally developed as a chemical weapon before World War II. These toxins accumulate in lower trophic level species like plankton, Pacific herring and salmon. Because of toxins like this and many others in the water, a process ensues called biomagnification by scientists. Orcas, which are the top predator in the ocean, end up consuming the highest levels of contaminants because these toxins have accumulated throughout the food chain.