Iowa Coffee Company

05/19/2026

05/02/2026

Channel 13 caught up with Tom at Des Moines' Downtown Farmers' Market opening day - Check out the interview.

What a fantastic morning - thanks to our staff and all who stopped by, it’s always fun to be back and see all of the smiling faces! 🌱☕️ ☀️

https://who13.com/news/metro-news/thousands-headed-to-the-downtown-farmers-market-on-opening-day/g

DES MOINES, Iowa– A projected 40,000 people filled the streets of downtown Saturday morning for the first day of the Downtown Farmers’ Market. The market runs every Saturday from May th…

11/22/2025

Look who made it into the event photos! See you tomorrow for festive shopping and great coffee. ☕️🤠🦃🍪📚

11/21/2025

All set up for the weekend festivities! Come down and grab a beverage while shopping and pick up your coffee beans for holiday hosting and gifting.

Farmer Tom Books is also set up with us and offering a Winter Market special: buy one book, get the second half off! Author Diane has signed all of the books and will be here in person meeting and greeting Saturday and Sunday.

We are grateful for all of our amazing customers this season. Hope to see you here! Tom

11/17/2025

We hope to see you at the Winter Market next weekend! Pick up coffee beans or ground coffee for all of your holiday festivities! Pre-order by Wed at noon for $1 off/pound and Tom will have your coffee bagged and ready for pick up. You’ll find all coffee varieties and flavors on the website. To pre-order, email Tom at [email protected].
Fresh roasted local coffee makes a fantastic host/ess gift!

Bonus! Author Diane will be meeting and greeting at our booth and available to personally sign copies of her children’s book, Farmer Tom. For all who hope to instill an appreciation for nature, animals, and the joy of small things to the next generation, you will love this charming book.

Mark Your Calendars 🗓️

The Downtown Winter Farmers' Market will return for its 20th season on Friday, Nov. 21 – Sunday, Nov. 23 at the Iowa Events Center, Hall C of the EMC Expo Center.

Market Hours:
- Friday, Nov. 21: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
- Saturday, Nov. 22: 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
- Sunday, Nov. 23: 8 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Vendor List: https://ow.ly/XepY50Xq9Yi
Market Map: https://ow.ly/VJfZ50Xq9Yk
Market Schedule: https://ow.ly/5TCf50Xq9Yj

11/10/2025

This is your reminder that when you shop small, a real person does an actual happy dance! ❤️💃🥰

08/13/2025

Dear RAGBRAI family,

We’ve been processing a loss the past couple of weeks and want to share with you all that our sweet, goofball, bale jumping, chicken herding, cat snuggling, face licking, Katie-dog crossed the rainbow bridge peacefully in her sleep a few days after we returned. We were so, so grateful for her long life of almost 16 joyful years, but the loss still took us by surprise. 💔❤️❤️‍🩹

We could talk a long while about dear Katie, but we feel like the photos are truly worth a thousand words. She will forever be remembered, and is now immortalized through her special appearances on a Jones Soda bottle in her younger days, and most recently in the Farmer Tom children’s book Diane published last year. She was a star and truly one of a kind!

Thank you for all the love, scratches, pets, time and quiet conversations you shared with her on RAGBRAI the past several years, as she greeted bikers and volunteers as part of our Iowa Coffee team. One of our many memories of RAGBRAI shenanigans includes Katie wandering off and Tom finding her in the local bar. If you have Katie photos or stories to share, please post them in the comments! She could not have had a better final week on the road with us and all of her adoring fans. 🥹🐾

With gratitude,
(Farmer) Tom and Diane 👨‍🌾

HoQ restaurant Farmer Tom Books Jones Soda

08/02/2025

Back in action at the Des Moines' Downtown Farmers' Market this morning and the coffee and espresso are flowing! Beautiful day in Des Moines, Iowa. We don’t get 75 degree August days very often in these parts, come out and see us!
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07/26/2025

That’s a wrap for RAGBRAI 2025!

We have such fantastic fans and it is such a pleasure to serve you all along the route each year. Big gratitude goes out to all of the volunteers, home hosts, and riders who stopped to see us in Ackley, our farm stop on Dunkerton Road day 6, and Stanley.

Big thanks to my partner, Diane, our niece, Elena, and our bestie, Jean, who helped us serve up coffee, cold brew, espresso and snacks along the way. And not to forget Katie-Dog, our promotional assistant and emotional support provider.

One of our customers said it best today when he told us he missed us yesterday and had to purchase coffee elsewhere. When we asked how it was, he said, “it was good, but I didn’t get to have a conversation … or pet a dog …so it just wasn’t the same.” 💗

As we all head back to our “real” lives this week, let’s keep the happy alive and continue those authentic connections with nature, fellow humans, and all the doggos.

Until next year,
Tom

07/25/2025

Good morning RAGBRAI riders!
Look for Iowa Coffee Company and HoQ restaurant on a farm about 9 miles out of Cedar Falls - watch for the gold and black banners!

Note: Address is 610 E Dunkerton (previous address published was incorrect)

See you soon and ride safe. Tom & crew