Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Discovery Organics

Company Visited: Discovery Organics

Where: Vancouver, BC Canada


Mission per company’s website:We passionately work to promote Certified Organic and Fair Trade by building relationships with small scale farmers here at home, as well as abroad.”

Final Thoughts: We met with Miranda and Andy. Andy is founder of this local food distributor company.  The idea was after this small farmer decided to go organic on all the food is currently grown and due to the misleading advertisement of “organic.” The company works with transparency. The concepts looked for in the company is fair trade and sustainable organics (which includes paying decent salary to workers) The company buys products from abroad, USA, and Canada because of the supply and demand. It compost and donates food. They also deliver 24/7 and competition is pro-organics with prices in the same range. Local commercial restaurants are the most attractive costumers, but Choice’s Market is the biggest costumer. The company is focused more on the social part of sustainability. 40 employees and they are also involved in domestic fair trade.

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