Brooklyn-based Driftaway Coffee is an immigrant-owned, woman-led small-batch roastery that fresh-roasts coffee for personalized subscriptions, tastings, and everyday brewing. Founded by Anu Menon and Suyog Mody as a 2012 passion project, the company puts smallholder producers at the center of its work by prioritizing women-owned farms and minority producers. Driftaway also makes specialty coffee approachable through guided virtual tastings and educational resources, without the usual snobbery.
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Humble Mornings Coffee CoStarted by home cook and coffee roaster Angelina after she developed her roasting idea in 2019, Humble Mornings Coffee Co. is a locally owned Cleveland roaster producing small-batch coffee on demand. The company sources beans from minority female farmers around the world and offers both single-origin coffees and imaginative flavored Arabica coffees, including its Baklava blend. Its Cleveland-roasted subscriptions also include recyclable, Nespresso-compatible espresso pods.CLEVELAND, OH
Sunday Morning Coffee CompanyFounded by Savannah Mitchell, Sunday Morning Coffee Company is a Black woman-owned roaster producing specialty Arabica blends that are roasted locally and shipped fresh. Its coffee grew from a bootstrapped brand into Sunday Morning at Savannah’s, a coffee lounge and hospitality destination set in a 200-year-old manor in New Windsor, Maryland. The company works with small-scale family farmers in coffee-growing regions worldwide and frames its coffee as part of a broader effort to expand Black representation in specialty coffee and hospitality.MILLERSVILLE, MD
Stone Street CoffeeFrom its Brooklyn plant, Stone Street Coffee roasts artisanal coffee in small batches for New York customers, home brewers, and wholesale accounts. The company pairs custom-roaster control with beans sourced through relationships with family farms and farmer co-ops around the world, with freshness guiding the process from origin to shipment. Its coffee specialists also train clients, extending Stone Street’s Brooklyn coffee expertise beyond the bag.BROOKLYN, NY
Matriarch CoffeeRooted in a Rwandan coffee-farming family, Baltimore-based Matriarch Coffee roasts specialty coffee sourced from Gasharu Farms and serves it through retail, wholesale, office-coffee, and café channels. The company’s story centers on Marie Mukamurenzi, who has used Gasharu Farms with her husband for more than 30 years to support their family and community, while Matriarch roasts distinctive coffees such as its 72-hour anaerobically fermented Ireme. Matriarch directs 10% of its profits to community programs and initiatives that financially empower women coffee farmers.BALTIMORE, MD