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Cloudforest Coffee imports organic, direct-trade coffee from the Intag region of Ecuador. (Asociación Agroartesanal de Caficultores Rio Intag.)

This specialty coffee is shade-grown and is truly one of the best in the world! The story behind this page starts in a remote mountain valley in the South-American country of Ecuador. Farmers there started an organic coffee co-operative in 1998 called A.A.C.R.I. They created the coffee co-operative to resist attempts by Canadian and Japanese mining companies entering their community and creating l

arge scale open-pit mines. The goal of this coffee co-operative is to improve the lives of coffee growing families. The type of coffee that they produce in Intag is an organically shade grown Arabica high-altitude coffee. They grow their coffee differently than the larger companies, they mix the the coffee plants in with native trees, corn and banana which maintains a bird-friendly ecosystem rather than a mono-crop technique. This is a direct trade coffee meaning that all of the proceeds the co-operative makes goes back to the farmers. By resisting mining corporations and their offer of large amounts of money, this Ecuadorean community has chosen local food production and keeping their environment clean. In a world that values profit over nature, the fight to protect Intag is an inspiration. For anyone who cares about the environment or the fate of the Earth, they should be concerned with the growth of mining. To conclude with a quote often used in mining or petroleum struggles: “Only when you kill the last fish and cut the last tree will you realize that you can not eat money.” By supporting Cloud Forest Coffee you support this communities struggle.

04/27/2026

Richard from came by to try our iced mocha!

04/17/2026

Yes, we roast and serve great coffee, but we are deeper than that. Think of us like an onion, we have layers. There's a story behind the beans.

The first time I visited Ecuador was in 2004, when I joined my Mom on a trip to go volunteer at a remote hospital in the Ecuadorian Amazon. For a fourteen year old kid from Ottawa, it was a life-changing trip. The hyper-diverse rainforest environment, the warmth and generosity of the people and the amazing food all left a deep impression on me.

Fate would have it that I returned to Ecuador in 2010, as part of a year abroad program at Trent University. As part of my program, I did a community placement in the Rio Intag region. There I learned all about the coffee cultivation process, from planting to roasting. The Rio Intag region is a cloud forest - an ecosystem that is both high in the mountains and tropical.

I also learned about how the community had been locked in a fight against a Canadian mining company for over 20 years. The area is one of the most biodiverse places on the planet, but it also has large amounts of copper and gold beneath the rich soil. Environmental assessments have concluded that large open-pit mines in this region would inevitably contaminate the water, and lead to massive habitat lost for the numerous endanged animals that live in the forests there.

Today the struggle to conserve the Intag continues. Though the community was successful in their fight against the Canadian mining company - there is now a Chilean mining company seeking to open a massive open-pit mine there. The fight is not over. For as long as this struggle goes on, we will continue to tell the story of this amazing community that is fighting to protect the cloud forest, and we will continue to support the farmers by making their coffee available in Canada!

03/21/2026

Happy sunny Saturday and happy first day of spring! We’re here for your coffee needs☀️ bon samedi ensoleillé et bonne première journée du printemps! Nous sommes là pour vos besoins en cafés!

02/19/2026

A sight for sore eyes, come brighten your day up at our Hull café!

Un régal pour les yeux, venez égayer votre journée dans notre café de Hull!

01/29/2026

This is a proper winter deep freeze we are in, come warm up your winter with coffee!

Nous sommes en plein hiver glacial, venez vous réchauffer avec un café !

01/02/2026

Hull café is so back! Open regular hours all weekend, let's go!

12/22/2025

It is with bittersweet feelings that we close our Hull café...for one week over the holidays! Our Hull café will be closed from Dec.24th - Jan.2nd. This will give our little team a chance to rest up and spend some time with our loved ones!

Please note that our Westboro café will remain open - except for Christmas day and New Years Day!

Come visit us tomorrow in Hull for our last day of service of 2025! Alternatively, come hang out with us at our Westboro café right up until Christmas eve at 3 pm when we will shut a lil' early. Back open on Boxing Day for Westie!

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C'est avec un sentiment doux-amer que nous fermons notre café de Hull... pendant une semaine pour les fêtes ! Notre café de Hull sera fermé du 24 décembre au 2 janvier. Cela permettra à notre petite équipe de se reposer et de passer du temps avec leurs proches !

Veuillez noter que notre café de Westboro restera ouvert, sauf le jour de Noël et le jour de l'An !

Venez nous rendre visite demain à Hull pour notre dernier jour d'ouverture de 2025 ! Vous pouvez également venir nous retrouver à notre café de Westboro jusqu'à la veille de Noël à 15 h, heure à laquelle nous fermerons un peu plus tôt. Nous rouvrirons le lendemain de Noël pour Westie !

12/09/2025

Each cup of coffee you get from us is lovingly crafted by one of our baristas. However, it goes deeper than that - it's also carefully roasted fresh every week by our master roaster. If you want to trace it back further, it's the result of years of direct trade relationships with the Ecuadorian farmers cooperative we source the beans from. If you've read this far, we might as well go deeper! That Ecuadorian farmer's cooperative was started to offer an economic alternative to mining in the pristine Rio Intag region of Ecuador. So yes, it's a delicious cup of coffee, but it's also a whole constellation of relationships and stories! Want to know more? Comment below if you'd like to attend a film screening that digs deeper into the origin story of your cup of the Cloudforest.

12/08/2025

✨️🍬🎄We now have our special seasonal feature drinks!☃️❄️✨️

1. Chai Eggnog Latte 🥚
2. Peppermint Mocha🍃☕️
3. Peppermint Hot Chocolate 🍃🍫
4. Gingerbread Latte🫚

11/29/2025

Have you tried our soup? Get it with a fresh buttered sliced of sourdough bread for maximum enjoyment! Available at our Hull café everyday!

Address

339 Richmond Road
Ottawa, ON
K2A0E7

Telephone

+16137009748

Website

http://www.cloudforestcoffee.ca/

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