About Us
Cherrybean Coffee Company™ is a small batch coffee roasting company located southwest of Sioux Falls in rural Parker, South Dakota. Cherrybean roasts only fair trade organic coffee—no exceptions. The company was established in 2007 by Reed Friese and purchased in 2010 by the current owners Brett and Carmen Smith.
Brett and Carmen moved back to southeastern South Dakota in 2004 and purchased the Brue Homestead, a 90 year old family acreage. Unknown to them, they purchased an acreage full of family history and South Dakota pride. It was only appropriate that the coffee roasting company be located, run and operated on the acreage.
Brett and Carmen are both South Dakota born and raised and have a great love for South Dakota and rural living. Both are graduates of Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota. Brett was a classroom educator for several years and now is the master roaster for Cherrybean. Carmen works with Brett in sales and marketing of Cherrybean.
The objective for Cherrybean Coffee Company is to provide great coffee to our customers. We want you to enjoy a cup of coffee that is truly good for everyone. We are committed to finding sustainable coffees that display the care and quality that we put into each roast. Our small batch roaster ensures that each batch is closely monitored and fresh. Our customers range from individual buyers, farmers markets, restaurants, coffee shops, retail, and grocery outlets. Cherrybean wants our coffee to be available and accessible to you. Most of our coffee is roasted within a week or less of our customers consumption.
We are passionate about many things at Cherrybean Coffee. Some of those passions include the well-being of children through the foster care system, pre k-12 education, and the Rescue program for Old English Sheepdogs. We are committed to giving back to community through our time and coffee sales to these programs. Although the coffee business touches on a global scale, which Cherrybean supports through the purchase of fair trade-organic coffee beans, and Café Femenino. We feel it is vital that we focus on the importance of domestic issues which affects our neighbors and fellow community members as well.
