Irving Farm

Did you know Millerton is "totes adorbs"?

Fri, 18 May 2012 17:25:42 -0400

Did you know Millerton is "totes adorbs"?: We’d say it’s “super swell.” But...

Good morning to everyone at the inaugural BioCities event, How...

Wed, 02 May 2012 10:47:00 -0400

Good morning to everyone at the inaugural BioCities event, How Food Systems Shape Cities: Ecological and Economic Perspectives!

The panel discussions at this event focus on issues affecting only more of us each day, as people across the world push further into urban environments. More than half of the human population now live in cities.

We’re happy to be on today’s menu put together by our friends at Whole Foods Market + Neuman’s!

Stop by either Canvas™ location this Saturday afternoon and...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:17:33 -0400

Stop by either Canvas™ location this Saturday afternoon and enjoy a free cup of Irving Farm’s Rainforest Foundation Project Blend , as well as special discounts on Canvas™ ceramics, all in support of The Rainforest Foundation!

For each bag of coffee purchased, Irving Farm will donate $1 to the Rainforest Foundation. This enables 9000 square feet of Rainforest to be defended, which equals 60 trees in the rainforest to be protected.

Canvas SOHO: 199 Lafayette, 12-3pm &

Canvas Chelsea: 123 West 17th street, 2-4pm

We’re very excited to have our special-edition Rainforest...

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:18:00 -0400

We’re very excited to have our special-edition Rainforest Foundation Project coffee bag featured among Vogue’s top ten most wanted products for Earth Day this Sunday, April 22nd! We’re in some very fine company on the list, so check it out for all the other great selections!

Photo credit: Marko MacPherson

Happy Earth Day! Earlier this month, Irving Farm launched a...

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:57:59 -0400

David of Irving Farm backstage

Trudie & David of Irving Farm

Bill Clinton being a rock star!

Each guest took home a bag!

Happy Earth Day!

Earlier this month, Irving Farm launched a special-edition charity coffee offering at the 2012 Benefit Concert for The Rainforest Foundation. 700 guests including Bill Clinton, Elton John, Meryl Streep, Bryn Terfel, Rita Wilson and others joined founders Trudie Styler and Sting to raise funds and celebrate the ongoing work of the foundation. You can see pictures from this event at our blog.

But the work and the celebration didn’t end at the concert. As Earth Day approaches, we want everyone to join in. For each bag of this coffee sold, we’re giving a dollar to The Rainforest Foundation. Each dollar enables the foundation to protect 60 trees and 9000 square feet of forestland. Please read more about this project here and consider joining us in our efforts.

Starting on Earth Day (this Sunday, April 22nd!) our cafes, 71 Irving Place and 56 Seventh Avenue, will be brewing only the Rainforest Foundation Project coffee blend for one whole week. So stop by for a cup!

Please also support the cafes and markets that are partnering with us in our Rainforest Foundation Project:

Four & Twenty Blackbirds
Ronnybrook Milk Bar
Joe the Art of Coffee - Pro Shop
Canvas
Astor Row Cafe
2 Alice’s Coffee
Paley’s Market
McEnroe Organic Market
Irving Farm Coffee House (Millerton, NY)
and more to come…

If you are around on/after Earth Day, definitely stop by one of our partners to grab a cup and buy a bag to champion this cause!

Colombia - El Jigual

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:47:43 -0400

Colombia - El Jigual

To Dario Anaya’s farm El Jigual

Dan traveling for 7 hours...

Oh no!

Monserrate Village

Cupping Lab in Monserrate

Explaining stages of Ripeness

De-pulper

Drying Patio (Solar Dryer)

Turning the Coffee

Colombia - El Jigual

Travel Diary Dan, our Coffee Director, just returned from a...

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:57:40 -0400

Jose Francisco Villeda and family

Dan meeting farmers, Hoduras newspaper

Omar, Las Capucas Co-op President

The view from El Cielito in San Vicente

Marcala

Coffee flowers in Nicaragua

Travel Diary

Dan, our Coffee Director, just returned from a coffee buying trip where he visited some old friend and made new coffee friends; sniffed, swirled and spit coffee; crossed borders and made the newspaper in Honduras…

Here are a few lines from his travel diary:

First stop, Capucas:

I wanted to drop a line about Las Capucas. Everything was amazing when we got here. Our hosts had built cabanas for us to stay in, which was real fun. This year the co-op had 40 new members join and I got to meet some of them. Great news, they all replaced their milling equipment with brand new milling equipment! Best of all, the coffee is improving. This year they had 44 lots in the competition (last year we had 30) and there were only 2 lots that we scored as “non-specialty”. This is an impressive achievement and I’m excited about how things continue to develop here.

On Saturday after the festival, I visited Jose Francisco Villeda (aka Pancho) and his family. He is a farmer whose coffee we currently buy. It was really awesome to sit down with him and learn more about his farm and family. Pancho and his wife Patricia have 4 daughters and 1 son. This year Pancho is processing much more of his own coffee, instead of selling it to the mill. This is largely because of our commitment to continue buying from him and the prospect of us buying more coffee.

Two days in San Vicente:

Now we are in Santa Barbara and working with the San Vicente Dry Mill. Santa Barbara is the most famous part of Honduras to source coffee from right now. Mostly because many of the “Cup of Excellence” winners come from here. For example the El Sauce coffee we had from CoE in 2010, which I visited today. We cupped 30 coffees in the Mill today, did a few farm visits and tomorrow are doing more farm visits from the coffees that we liked. I found one lot that I like a LOT which wasn’t spoken for and we are going to visit tomorrow. It is all Bourbon, which is uncommon here with mostly Pacas and Catuai being grown.

Two days in Marcala:

We took a side trip to Marcala on the way to Nicaragua. Marcala is probably the best known of Honduras’ growing regions. It is a controlled Denomination of Origin by the Honduran Government, which means the coffees must be from the region of Marcala, and meet the quality specs. This year however was the first year the mill here has separated “micro-lots”. We cupped 30 coffees and saw some promise. We also met an amazing young lady named Nancy Contreras, who has been cupping since she was 14 and now owns a coffee shop, roasts and cups at the mill.

Last stop, Nicaragua:

Yesterday we crossed the border from Honduras to Nicaragua. This morning we are getting up early to head out to visit some farms. We toured around Ocotal (the city where we are) in two coffee growing regions, Dipilto and Mozonte. The last day we cupped 30 coffees at Beneficio Las Segovias, before heading to the Managua. Dipilto and Mozonte also showed tons of promise and some amazing producers with very distinct points of view.

After two weeks on the road I am exhausted but amazed at the great coffees and people I have been introduced to. Looking forward to returning home to NYC.

1 BAG = $1 = 60 TREES PROTECTED & 9000 SQ. FEET...

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:44:00 -0400

1 BAG = $1 = 60 TREES PROTECTED & 9000 SQ. FEET DEFENDED

IRVING FARM + THE RAINFOREST FOUNDATION, “1 BAG = $1 CAMPAIGN”

BY PURCHASING THIS SPECIAL-EDITION RAINFOREST FOUNDATION BAG YOU CAN CHAMPION THIS CAUSE AND OUR EFFORTS IN SAVING THE ENVIRONMENT.

FOR MORE ON THIS PROJECT

TO SUPPORT THIS CAUSE

We’re proud to support the work of The Rainforest Foundation....

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:39:00 -0400

We’re proud to support the work of The Rainforest Foundation. We recognize the importance of restoring farmland with tree plantings amid coffee crops to provide a healthy habitat for surrounding flora and fauna. We are committed to sourcing beans from responsible and sustainable coffee growers worldwide.

By purchasing a special edition bag, you champion this cause and help our efforts to protect the environment.

Learn more about this project and other ways to get involved here.

Founders Sting and Trudie Styler began the Rainforest Foundation...

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:40:00 -0400

Founders Sting and Trudie Styler began the Rainforest Foundation International in 1989 after they saw first-hand the destruction of the Amazon rainforests, and the devastating impact it had on the lives of the indigenous peoples who lived there.

This week at the 2012 Rainforest Foundation Benefit Concert Irving Farm is launching a collaboration project between Irving Farm and The Rainforest Foundation. We are donating $1 for every special-edition Rainforest Foundation bag sold.

Every dollar we give enables 9000 square feet of rainforest to be defended and 60 trees in a rainforest to be protected.

To join us in this cause, you can purchase a bag at irvingfarm.com.

Check out Baked By Butterfield grand opening today! Grab a yummy...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:51:00 -0400

Check out Baked By Butterfield grand opening today!

Grab a yummy doughnut and an awesome cup of Irving Farm coffee @ 1102 Lexington Avenue

Panorama of My Silence-Heart Cafe: Where Irving Farm Coffee...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:23:00 -0400

Panorama of My Silence-Heart Cafe:

Where Irving Farm Coffee and guru Sri Chinmoy meet.

(via Edible Queens)

http://www.ediblecommunities.com/queens/winter-2012/panorama-of-my-silence-heart-cafe.htm#.T3RS5-VO_ik.tumblr

500 discerning palates filled Gotham Hall Wednesday for the...

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:10:00 -0400

500 discerning palates filled Gotham Hall Wednesday for the annual Polaner Selections’ Wine Tasting. Chefs, Sommeliers and Beverage Directors sniffed, swirled and spit a large offering of amazing wines from around the globe.

Irving Farm was on hand to offer the counterpoint to the wine-crash, fresh, caffeinated espresso, cappuccinos and lattes made possible with the help from our friends at Organic Valley with their delicious NY dairy offering.

Tam and Jake made coffees and sampled some wines themselves. One favorite was a delicious buttery, peppery Sicilian wine from Valle dell’Acate!

(Via SPRUDGE.COM) Newsflash: There is good coffee in New York...

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:05:21 -0400

(Via SPRUDGE.COM) Newsflash: There is good coffee in New York City on the Upper West Side! The UWS is a largely untapped resource for specialty coffee, perhaps due to the frankly odd way of life that exists there – $6500 a month apartments directly next door to $500 rent controls! doormen that make more during Christmas than you do all year! that remarkable park, right there within walking distance, close enough to call your back yard! - but more likely on account of ludicrously high rents. Opening a new cafe there is risky, but the folks at Irving Farm are betting big by setting up a flagship space at 264 W 79th, between Broadway and Amsterdam, in the heart of the UWS. Here’s some more from the Irving Farm blog:

We’re completely reconstructing a 1500 square-foot space on the ground floor of a historic brownstone on West 79th Street in Manhattan. From the building materials and brewing equipment, to the coffee menu and food offerings, we’re designing a space that will be unlike anything we’ve built before, and a cafe experience we hope will be unlike anything you’ve ever had before!

We’re still several weeks away from opening the doors, but we can’t help our excitement as all the new components begin to fit into place. On the counter, we’ll have a La Marzocco Strada and a beatifully hand-crafted bar for our Kalita pour-over gear—all of this to present our dynamic menu of blended and single-origin coffees that Dan Streetman (Ed. note: that’s him riding the Wooly Mammoth), our Coffee Director, has been working hard to source. In addition to the coffee, our menu will feature craft beers, a small list of wines and local meats and cheeses. And, to take it all in, we’ll have a back lounge with a skylight and a 10-foot community dining table made of reclaimed wood.

Irving Farm’s new cafe is designed by the architecture firm LEVENBETTS (we understand they prefer the full capitalization), whose website is here – we dare you not to lose an hour there.

Let’s put this is New York context, shall we? To reach the new Irving Farm cafe, one takes the oft-ignored 1 train, which, if you haven’t been on it in a while, is actually quite nice – there’s usually the full dot-tracking stop service in each car, and the tone of your train will be its own whole thing, a mix of Columbia students, incognito (or accidental) billionaires, and collected sociological samples from that odd para-world that exists along the Northern finger of Manhattan Island serviced by the 1, all the way to that amazing castle-thing in Fort Tryon Park. Take the 1 and get off on the 79th Street stop – Irving Farm UWS is a proverbial hop, skip, and jump away.

Irving Farm joins Joe NYC’s space on W. 84th (Ecco) and the Momofuku Milk Bar space on Columbus and W. 84th (Stumptown) as outposts for high-end non-Starbucks coffee options on that side of Central Park. It is also worth noting that Irving Farm’s new space will be within mere blocks (and a $19 suggested donation) from the T-Rex fossil on permanent exhibition at the American Natural History Museum. We’re working on an approbative thesis now: “Good Coffee and Dinosaurs: Towards A New Duality”.

More, we say! We want more good roasters represented above and around Central Park, and we want it now! Don’t you realize these neighborhoods are chockablock with curious billionaires, surreal vistas, and all manner of cool / weird stuff to do? Coffee is such a lovely way to enjoy and explore New York, and we don’t just mean the New York below 34th Street. This very promising development from Irving Farm gives us one more excellent excuse to go see the Aptosaurus, the wooly mammoth, and the Hayden Planetarium….summer softball in the park, anyone?

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Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:15:00 -0400

"Betting The Irving Farm: Moving To UWS": The latest on Irving Farm's upcoming cafe featured on sprudge.com.

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:55:06 -0400

http://sprudge.com/betting-the-irving-farm-ny-roaster-bullish-on-the-uws.html

We’re building a new cafe, and we think you’ll love it! Earlier...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:57:00 -0400

We’re building a new cafe, and we think you’ll love it!

Earlier this year, we mentioned that we’re working on a new project. We’re completely reconstructing a 1500 square-foot space on the ground floor of a historic brownstone at 224 West 79th Street in Manhattan. From the building materials and brewing equipment, to the coffee menu and food offerings, we’re designing a space that will be unlike anything we’ve built before, and a cafe experience we hope will be unlike anything you’ve ever had before!

We’re still several weeks away from opening the doors, but we can’t help our excitement as all the new components begin to fit into place. On the counter, we’ll have a La Marzocco Strada and a beatifully hand-crafted bar for our Kalita pour-over gear—all of this to present our dynamic menu of blended and single-origin coffees that Dan Streetman, our Coffee Director, has been working hard to source. In addition to the coffee, our menu will feature craft beers, a small list of wines and local meats and cheeses. And, to take it all in, we’ll have a back lounge with a skylight and a 10-foot community dining table made of reclaimed wood.

There’s so much more to come, as we prepare to open. We’ll bring you more updates soon! For now, we hope you enjoy the rendering above, courtesy of our friends at LEVENBETTS, who have designed the space.

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Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:46:00 -0400

This past Friday and Saturday Irving Farm got the chance to...

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:09:00 -0500

This past Friday and Saturday Irving Farm got the chance to connect and reconnect with some of our favorite farmers, chefs, and agronomists at the Just Food Conference in Manhattan.

1,000 members of the local food movement, including our friends from the Stone Barns Center, gathered to learn more about each other’s interests and initiatives… and, of course, to drink a lot of coffee! Tickets for the event sold out, and the morning crowds kept Jake Leonti (Director of Wholesale) and Miguel Rios (barista at 56 Seventh Ave) busy serving coffee faster than they could brew it.

Special shout out to Organic Valley; pairing their great milk from NY dairy farms with our coffee made a great combination! We’re happy to have had the opportunity to be a sponsor and to have had Dan Streetman (Director of Coffee) participate as a workshop panelist.

Third Place for Irving Farm in the Brewer’s Cup at the...

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:18:00 -0500

Third Place for Irving Farm in the Brewer’s Cup at the Northeast Regional Barista Competition! Go Tamara!

Last weekend, Irving Farm was involved with this year’s Northeast Regional Barista Competition. Every year it is a gathering of the best baristas from New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and Maryland. At the event there are two competitions. The Barista Competition, and the Brewer’s Cup. This year from Irving Farm our Director of Education Tamara Vigil competed in both competitions and took Third Place in the Brewer’s Cup!