Gimme! Coffee

Gimme Coffee Cooperative describes itself as one of the first worker-owned companies in the American coffee industry, a structural fact that shapes how the Ithaca roaster talks about sourcing: fair trade and organic certification show up across the lineup rather than on a single flagship bag. Leftist Espresso, Deep Disco and Stargazer all carry Fair Trade Organic certification, and the roastery runs single-origin lots from Guatemala, Ethiopia, Colombia and Burundi alongside its blends. The company, founded in 2000 and now operating as a cooperative, roasts from its Ithaca base and runs both a cafe business and a wholesale operation supplying other accounts. For drinkers avoiding caffeine, the water-processed decaf option skips the chemical solvents used in some decaffeination methods, keeping the same certification standard as the rest of the lineup rather than treating decaf as an afterthought. Beyond the bag, Gimme runs a subscribe-and-save program, sells matcha alongside its coffee, and backs its retail business with fundraising programs — a cooperative structure that extends into how the company presents its relationship with both farmers and its own workforce.