Coffee with a conscience since 1994.
For over 30 years, Larry's Coffee has been roasting organic, fair trade coffee in Raleigh, North Carolina. The kind of coffee that is good to the people who grow it, the planet it grows on and the person holding the cup. As a certified B Corp and a proud member of Cooperative Coffees because great coffee and a better world were never a tradeoff.
Sandro Niessen and Jessie Lotrecchiano
Things we believe
Sourcing Matters
We believe coffee should be grown with care and the growers should be treated fairly.
Green-o-vation
Sustainability isn't just a buzz word. To us we find real ways to leave things better than we found them.
Giving Back
We believe a business can be force for good. Including giving back to our local community and non-profits.
The Larry's story so far
The company is set into motion.
Larry's Beans is officially doing business, roasting coffee.
Fair trade for real
Larry's Coffee becomes a founding member of Cooperative Coffees. A way for small coffee roasters to pool resources and form strong relationships with coffee growers abroad.
Burnin' Fryer Oil
A small school bus is converted to biodiesel. This veggie-oil powered delivery van became a planet friendly ride, dropping coffee off around Raleigh.
Green-o-vation!
Our Raleigh roastery becomes a working model of sustainability. Rooftop rainwater collection, on-site composting, a bustling pollinator garden, and thoughtful daylight-friendly architecture.
Certified B-Corp
We earn our B Corporation certification formalizing what we had been living all along: business as a force for good, measured and held to high standards.
Changing Hands
Sandro Niessen and Jessie Lotrecchiano take the wheel. Under new ownership Larry’s keeps roasting great coffee and dreaming up new ways to share it.
Bean Bus rolls onto the scene
This rolling coffee shop gives 50% back on everything sold off the bus.
Come see the Green-O-Vation
Walk through our Raleigh facility and you will find sustainability is not a marketing line for us; it is plumbed into the walls, dug into the soil and growing right out back. To us, sustainability is not about being perfect but doing what we can, wherever we can.
The Pollinator Garden
Just outside the roastery we have flowers, fruit trees, veggies and herbs buzzing with bees, butterflies and birds. Our pollinator garden offers habitat for local wildlife.
Harvesting Rainwater
The roof was pitched strategically to collect rainwater. It flows into one of our rain barrels where its used for watering plants and into a cistern to flush our toilets!
Composting Waste
Coffee roasting has natural byproducts like chaff and spent grounds. Instead of sending it to a landfill, we are working with local composting partners to enrich soil all around Raleigh.
Thoughtful Architecture
The roastery was designed to catch the light. Strategically placed windows and skylights flood the space with daylight so we can reduce the use of overhead lights. In the colder months, the sunlight adds passive warmth to the concrete floor.
