New Harvest Coffee Roasters was founded in 2000 by Rik Kleinfeldt and Paula Anderson, with the aim of making extraordinary coffee accessible to real people. In the early days Rik roasted alone in an industrial shed at the old Washburn Wire factory. The roastery now works from the Farm Fresh Food Hub in Providence, Rhode Island, and its café and bar, New Harvest Coffee & Spirits, is on the same site, serving New Harvest coffees and a cocktail menu in a room that overlooks the roasting floor. On weekdays the roasters can be seen at work through the glass. Beans ordered online are collected there, with brewing supplies and merchandise, and there is outdoor seating.

The Source Direct programme began in 2007. Roastery staff travel to farms in Central and South America and buy from farmers and cooperatives they work with year after year, among them COMSA in Marcala, Honduras, ASOBAGRI in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, and the Brazilian exporter Legender. New Harvest has roasted the entire harvest of Adolfo Reyes’ farm, Los Portillos in Santa Bárbara, Honduras, since 2010. It runs barista classes for professionals and home brewers, and hosts fundraisers with local non-profits working on literacy, women’s health and the arts.

The range runs from light-roasted single origins to dark roasts, with organic blends built on COMSA coffee, three espresso blends including the seasonal Whisper and the darker Monster, and decafs made with an all-water method by Descafeinadores Mexicanos in Veracruz.

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Photograph: New Harvest Coffee Roasters