Founding Farmers Blog

Founding Farmers joined the gathering of DC foodies last night at the RAMMYS Awards Gala held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Our team was on hand to mix up some of the city’s favorite cocktails, including our Cucumber Delight featuring our award-winning craft vodka, and celebrate our industry friends.

Founding Farmers, its sibling restaurants Farmers & Distillers and Farmers Fishers Bakers, and parent company Farmers Restaurant Group, just launched a campaign to eliminate single-use plastic straws across the DMV. Our Last Straw is building a coalition of restaurants, bars, cafes, and hotels working on a shared mission to eliminate plastic drinking straws due to their impact on our environment and our health.

Founding Farmers Reston Station joined our newest neighbors at the 38th Annual Herndon Festival over the weekend. Before the news of Sunday rains washed the festivities away, the Founding Farmers team handed out complimentary granola and coupons for our latest restaurant located at the Reston Metro Station’s Silver Line.

June 4th marks the start of a very special season for Campari lovers: Negroni Week. Across Farmers Restaurant Group, we love this annual opportunity to serve delicious cocktails for a cause.

It’s soft-shell crab season in the Washington, D.C. metro area. For many, this means dining out and seeing how some of your favorite restaurants are serving them. Founding Farmers Tysons, DC, and MoCo are all offering Maryland soft-shell crabs two ways this year.

Founding Farmers King of Prussia just received our 3 Star Certification from the Green Restaurant Association for our daily work to implement and maintain earth-friendly restaurant operations. Because operating sustainably is a critical mission across our company, all of our restaurants go through the Green Restaurant Association certification program.

Tuesday afternoon, our sibling restaurant, Founding Farmers & Distillers, welcomed our brand-new 18-wheeler to town, chock-full of ingredients – including the sugar we use in all of our desserts and Beyla Honey – from North Dakota family farms.

Need lunch delivered to your office for a work session to keep your team energized? Working on a solo project and losing steam? Maybe you’re at home, wanting scratch-made food that you don’t have to make.

Founding Farmers is ready for the Kentucky Derby, and if you haven’t stopped by, you should, because we are already celebrating what has been coined “the greatest two minutes in sports.” We are pre-gaming for the Derby all week with several takes on the Mint Julep, the traditional cocktail of Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby for nearly a century now, using our very own Founding Spirits American Whiskey, including: “Never Bitter” Julep with Founding Spirits American Whiskey, mint, and bitters, topped with Founding Spirits American Amaro; TR Julep with Founding Spirits American Whiskey, mint, and bitters; and the 1924 Julep with Founding Spirits American Whiskey, mint, aromatic bitters, and cherry.

Founding Farmers was onsite last weekend when The George Washington University Apiary installed six new honey bee hives. We support this undergraduate urban beekeeping research project, which includes a dozen hives atop a campus building in downtown DC.