Founding Farmers Blog

It is a great season to visit Founding Farmers Tysons. Our sunflowers are back and in-house through September.  We love welcoming guests to our Tysons restaurant with our bounty of sunflowers. Each year, we harvest these beauties with our friends and sustainable partners at Sweet Virginia, a non-profit working to educate children about the wonder of honey bees and their importance in pollinating and maintaining food diversity for every living creature on the planet.

Savor summer with Restaurant Week at three of our DMV area Founding Farmers restaurants.  From August 12th through August 18th, our Founding Farmers Reston Station and Founding Farmers Tysons teams will be welcoming guests to our Northern Virginia restaurants for the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington’s (RAMW) Restaurant Week Summer 2019.  Our MoCo’s Founding Farmers will be not only participating in the DC area RAMW Restaurant Week event, but our Potomac, MD restaurant will get started a few days early – August 9th  – by joining in Bethesda Magazine’s Restaurant Week Summer 2019, which also runs through August 18.

What is Negroni Week?  In 2013, Imbibe Magazine and Campari launched Negroni Week as a celebration of the classic Italian Negroni cocktail and a way to raise money for charity. Since then, Negroni Week has grown from approximately 120 industry participants to almost 10,000 partners worldwide, and Founding Farmers is proud to participate in DC’s Negroni Week once again. 

Last night, Co-Owner Dan Simons and our team were thrilled to accept the Maryland Green Registry’s Leadership Award for MoCo’s Founding Farmers from Maryland Secretary of the Environment, Ben Grumbles, and the Maryland Department of the Environment.

Last night, members of our team celebrated our win as one of the Greater Washington, D.C. area’s Best Places to Work by the Washington Business Journal.  We couldn’t be more proud. Of course, we thank the Washington Business Journal for this nomination and win.

It is no secret that sustainable practices are built into the very fabric of our Founding Farmers mission, which includes our efforts to get to know our suppliers and the sources of our food. 

Celebrating your college graduate soon? Our Founding Farmers King of Prussia is open and our team is ready to serve our scratch-made goodness to you, your graduate, and all of your revelers.  Let our King of Prussia team do all the cooking, so you can focus on your graduate. 

This weekend, Founding Farmers King of Prussia returned to The Valley to sponsor the Valley Forge Revolutionary 5-Mile Run® for the second year in a row. Over the years, the run (dubbed “Rev Run”) has raised over $400k in support of Valley Forge National Historical Park.

We love hosting our annual derby festivities to celebrate what the Kentucky Derby is famous for… the horses, the hats, and of course, the booze.  Come join us at Founding Farmers DC to salute America’s Greatest Race from April 29th through May 5th.

As a farmer-owned company, supporting our team and our local community is built into our DNA. So, when one of our own builds a local, homegrown cycling team that needs support, we’re all in.  For the second year in a row, Farmers Restaurant Group is happy to back a local, homegrown elite cycling squad registered as a USA Cycling Domestic Elite Team.