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About
Milk House Roastery is farm → farm coffee.
A small batch coffee roaster on Shepard Settlement Farm in Marcellus, New York. Founded by Mike and Lynda Foster in the spring of 2020, and still roasting out of the tiny milk house it is named for.
It starts at the source
Our process begins with the farmer.
Our process begins at the source, with the farmer who grows the coffee plants, harvests the fruit, and processes the beans that will eventually end up in our roaster.
Roasting is just one small element in the origin of a coffee bean. By roasting a coffee bean well, it is our hope to highlight the origin, the grower, and the processor of these beans for you to taste in your cup.
Farmers buying from farmers
We understand the work, because we do it too.
We understand the husbandry involved in small, family run agriculture. As small scale farmers ourselves, it is our goal to support small coffee growers who share similar practices and values as us. We understand the work that goes into raising crops, and it is this knowledge that determines the care and attention we take when roasting our beans.
Small by choice
We buy from small growers and cooperatives, and we roast in batches small enough to taste through.
Shared practices
We look for producers whose approach to their land looks like ours does to ours.
Care carried forward
What a grower put into the crop is what we are trying not to lose on the drum.
The milk house
Really good coffee, shared with the neighbours.
Mike and Lynda Foster established Milk House Roastery in the spring of 2020 with the goal to roast really good coffee and share that with their community. We have been able to do that, all from our tiny milk house.
The roaster sits in the old milking parlor. It is small, it smells like coffee on a Tuesday morning, and it is where every bag on this site comes from.
It has become known by locals as the Shepard Settlement Social Club.
What the neighbours call it
That was never the plan. It turns out that if you put a coffee roaster in a milk house on a working farm and open the door on a weekend, people come and stay a while.
Come by
The door is open on weekends.
Order online and pick up any time, or come during store hours, look at the roaster, and take something home. Refrigerated items need to be collected while we are open.
Store hours
Fri 9–2 · Sat & Sun 9–noon
Corner of Stump and NW Townline Rd, Marcellus, New York 13108
Farm to farm coffee
Stop by and taste it for yourself.
Roasted on the farm in Marcellus, New York. Direct from family farms in Colombia and beyond.
Questions about wholesale? See our wholesale programs.