Every year our RT | Foundation grows, and more small businesses come forward to share their mission and efforts towards a sustainable future.
Our 4th annual RT | Foundation Award winners are Found Coffee and Chunks Repas DME Inc!
Whether it’s Pottery for the Planet, or utilizing second-life ice bags – both these small businesses are passionate about positive impacts on the environment. We’re truly excited to see the journey of these two amazing businesses.
Winners
Found Coffee | Drink Better Coffee
– Leighton Walters.
Leighton came to Toronto to create a safe space for people, “to be a community serving the community”. His first job was in a local coffee shop where he felt accepted – igniting his passion for quality coffee and community.
With an overwhelming number of franchises and chains around the city, people were seeking quality coffee – poured with precision and care. That’s what Found offers to people through their 3 locations in Toronto. Their unique location in Guelph offers a coffee collaboration roastery space where likeminded and passionate coffee professionals can share the space.
Where to find them:
College – 324 College St. Toronto, ON
Trinity Bellwoods – 189 Shaw St, Toronto, ON4
Roncesvalles – 2088 Dundas St. W, Toronto, ON
Guelph – 17 Gordon St. Guelph, ON
Chunks Repas DME Inc.
With a passion for cooking and wanting to give hardworking parents a well-deserved break, Kathryn decided to tap into her entrepreneurial side.
Chunks Repas DME offers homemade baby-led-weaning ready-to-eat meals made from garden grown and local products. If you’re in Quebec (or Ontario if close to Quebec), you can place online orders for portioned vacuum-packed meals and snacks for your little ones.
Runners Up
Alaya Tea
LA, California
alayatea.co
@alayatea
Our second-place winners, Alaya Tea, is an Indian, women-owned loose leaf tea company. Alaya Tea respects the communities of small farmers and tea estates, while addressing environmental challenges faced through agriculture. As a proud woman-owned business, they celebrate the beauty of women in a variety of tea growing regions (Darjeeling, Assam, Uttar Pradesh, etc.) of the world.
Stone Bridge Flour
Ontario, Canada
stonebridgeflour.com
@stone.bridge.flour
Our third-place winners, Stone Bridge Flour, provides customers with premium stone-milled flour grown on their family farm in Ripley, ON and milled in Kincardine, ON. An Ontario business that supports local farmers and proudly creates flour grown in their own backyard. With a variety of flours, they believe that flour changes the way you bake, eat, and enjoy your food.
Upcoming RT | Foundation
We created this award because customized packaging might not be something at the top of your list, or you might not know where to start. It can be overwhelming!
RT | Foundation is all about celebrating small businesses, while taking away that stress and cost of customized packaging.