Barren Ground Coffee

The vendor's own team page names three Yellowknife-based co-founders (CEO Eric Binion, CFO Jeremy Binion, and Director of Quality Susan Saunders) and no outside investor or parent company. Corporations Canada's federal registry returns zero results for the name, so it is not incorporated federally; the Northwest Territories Corporate Registries Online System requires a login account to search and could not be reached, so this rests on the vendor's own statement rather than a registry filing.

• Who We Are — Barren Ground Coffee vendor_statement “Co-founder and CEO Eric Binion”
• Search for a Federal Corporation - Online Filing Centre - Corporations Canada - Corporations - Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada registry “0 results were found, 0 returned.”
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Barren Ground Coffee roasts all of its coffee at its own facility at 5103 52 Street in Yellowknife. Its second location, the Birchwood cafe acquired in 2024, serves coffee from the same roastery rather than roasting on site. No outside roasting or co-packing facility is mentioned anywhere on the vendor's site.

• Who We Are — Barren Ground Coffee vendor_statement “We roast fresh coffee in Yellowknife for homes, offices, and cafés across the North.”
• Birchwood — Barren Ground Coffee vendor_statement “Part of the Barren Ground Coffee family.”

Barren Ground Coffee is a single-city business: its roastery and main cafe sit at 5103 52 Street and its second Birchwood cafe at 5021 49 Street, both in Yellowknife. The team page names only the three co-founders, all described as running the business locally, with no other office or facility mentioned.

• Who We Are — Barren Ground Coffee vendor_statement “Barren Ground Coffee 5103 52 Street, Yellowknife, NT X1A 1T7”
• Birchwood — Barren Ground Coffee vendor_statement “Birchwood Coffee 5021 49 Street, Yellowknife, NT X1A 1P5”

Green coffee cannot be grown in Canada, so every bean Barren Ground Coffee roasts is imported. Its current inventory names Ethiopia and Indonesia as origins, with the Indonesia Sumatra lot labeled cooperative-sourced and organic; its catalog also carries older product listings for Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras, and Peru. No origin in the US or EU is named anywhere, so the mix goes entirely to OTHER (Latin America, Africa, and Indonesia).

• Current Inventory — Barren Ground Coffee vendor_statement “indonesia sumatra COOP/Organic”
• Canadian Made Coffee & More - Made In Canada Directory directory “All of our coffee will note whether it is fair trade, organic, or both.”