sustainable practices

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.

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.

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.

At Farmers Restaurant Group, our restaurants work because of our people. From the farmers who grow our food to the servers who put the plates on the table, we value our team and the individual contributions they make.

Scratch-made food and drink go hand-in-hand with handcrafted interiors. At least that is what we believe. At Founding Farmers, we love to support and showcase the individual and innovative human spirit.

Food waste accounts for more than 35 percent of landfill waste in the U.S., yet very little is being done to reduce this. Currently, only about three percent of food is diverted from going into landfills.

Founding Farmers prides itself on our scratch-made food, which we think is delicious for three main reasons: smart recipes, great chefs, and high-quality ingredients. We work hard to ensure that all of the food on our menus has all three.

Glazed Cedar Plank Salmon has become one of the most popular menu items across all of our restaurants. No doubt, the recipe is a winner. But what lies beneath the salmon is critical to the rustic, smoky taste that pairs so well with the sweetness of the apricot glaze.

At Farmers Restaurant Group, we are excited to announce we have taken another step to do more good and less harm for the earth and so many of its beautiful creatures.

All of our restaurants across Farmers Restaurant Group – Founding Farmers, Farmers Fishers Bakers, and Farmers & Distillers – are LEED certified, or we are in the process of pursuing LEED certification.