Palouse Coffee Club
A local roaster is a local employer
Olympia Coffee has been Living Wage Certified since 2022, which ties its roasting and cafe jobs in Olympia, Tacoma and Seattle to a stated pay standard. Dillanos in Sumner employs more than 125 people, and the Puget Sound Business Journal named it among its Best Places to Work in 2025. Fidalgo in Burlington creates jobs for people leaving the legal system through Underground Coffee, in partnership with the Skagit County nonprofit Tierra Nueva.
Some of those jobs last a working lifetime. Lighthouse has roasted at the corner of 43rd and Phinney in Fremont since 1993, and several of its staff have been there for decades. Espresso Vivace's production facility manager started as a barista in 1999. Washington has 209 independent roasters by the count of the Roast Local directory, and each of them is a payroll that depends on people here buying the bag.
The money stays in the neighborhood
Broadcast delivers fresh roasted coffee every week to wholesale accounts across Seattle and King County. Zoka roasts in Bellingham with a four person team. Kuma still roasts in Seattle with four people and lets neighbors pick up at the roll-up door on Thorndyke Avenue with a free drink from the warehouse cafe. Bluebeard's roastery reuses a 100 year old furniture showroom on South Tacoma Way.
That money keeps moving locally. Boon Boona pours beer and wine from Metier Brewing and Holy Mountain at its University Way cafe. Elm brewed two coffee stouts with Holy Mountain and buys flowers from The London Plane down the street in Pioneer Square. Indaba's Kendall Yards cafe in Spokane is a partnership with Fleet Feet. Buy from one of these roasters and you have paid a second Washington business without noticing.
Fresher, and a shorter way to your door
Coffee is best in the weeks after roasting. A bag roasted in Seattle, Spokane or Olympia and mailed inside the state spends days in transit, not weeks in a warehouse. Espresso Vivace delivers to its Seattle shops in a small electric van. The club's first promise, roasted and shipped within 3 days, from the roaster's own roastery in their own bag, follows the same logic.
You know who roasted it
Herkimer has roasted on Phinney Ridge since 2003, in the same building as its first cafe. Olympia Coffee holds public cuppings on first Fridays and home barista classes. Victrola's original cafe on 15th Avenue on Capitol Hill still has a community room that neighbors can reserve for free. Indaba's original cafe on West Broadway in Spokane's West Central neighborhood is still open.
Many of these roasters name the place on the bag. Indaba's Lilac City blend takes Spokane's nickname; Fulcrum's blends nod to Pike Street and Jazz Alley; Fidalgo sells a seasonal Tulip Festival Blend. A bag like that comes from somewhere you can drive to.
What they put back
Caffe Vita's Coffees for a Cause line gives $2 a bag to nonprofits such as Lambert House and FareStart, and in 2009 it organized the GIVE Seattle compilation album for local food banks and arts groups. Seven runs a zero waste cafe in Ravenna and gives local groups 10 percent of the coffee sales made through their fundraising link. Zoka's Redhawk Blend benefits Sammamish High School. Fidalgo supports Northwest Harvest, Seattle Children's and Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland.
In 2004 Espresso Vivace worked with Cascade Land Conservancy to plant hundreds of cedar trees in Interlaken Park to offset its roasting emissions. Boon Boona offers pop-up space in its cafes to local artists, nonprofits and small businesses. Every one of these is funded by coffee sold in Washington. When the buying stops, the giving stops first.
How the club fits in
Palouse Coffee Club sends a 12 oz bag from a different independent Washington roaster in every box. The roaster roasts it to order and ships it in their own bag, with our packing slip naming the roaster, their shop and what to taste for. Every roaster is paid for the coffee they roast, and over a year you meet a dozen of them from Bellingham to Spokane.
The roasters shown on this site are listed because we like them, not as partners. If a bag becomes a favorite, buy the next one from the roaster.
Start with the roasters near you
Every Washington roaster we follow has its own page with its story, coffees, cafes and address: Seattle, Olympia, Tacoma, Spokane, Bellingham, Renton, Sumner and Burlington. Start on the Washington State roasters list.