girls who grind coffee

Fi O’Brien and Casey Lalonde are the owners of Girls Who Grind, based in Wiltshire, South-West England. They are a womxn-led, anti-patriarchy specialty coffee roastery and they are part of the rebellion movement. All coffees they source come exclusively from change-making womxn producers whose work is celebrated and stories are shared. To give back to the producers in exchange for everything they give, above and beyond the beans themselves, Fi and Casey run the Cheek to Cheek initiative, where 10% of the sale price of all their retail coffees is put back into their suppliers' pockets to show intention about being one team.

Casey (left), originally from Upstate New York, and Fi (right), originally from Melbourne Australia, met and became friends in their new hometown of Frome, Somerset (UK). While their kids played, they often got chatting about their love of coffee and their various experiences within the industry, discovering that they both felt as though there was definite room for change and improvement, in short - they wanted to see more equality! 

"As women, we had felt a little pushed out of an industry that we had loved so much and had so much to give to.  Rather than simply complain about it, we thought we would make the change we wanted to see!  We wanted to create an industry where women felt empowered and celebrated for everything they bring to the table and have their voices heard. Hence why we made the conscious decision to focus solely on buying coffee from female producers, sharing their stories to the world, giving them the recognition they rightly deserve for the incredible work that they do."