About Us

I am Vanessa, the owner and founder of Toe Beans Coffee Bar. I have always held a deep and strong love for cats, and after adopting my first cat in college from the Jacksonville Humane Society, my heart broke. Seeing the struggles of animal rescues was incredibly heartbreaking.

Toe Beans Coffee Bar was born from my incredible passion for cats and coffee. I have always believed in using Fair Trade Coffee, supporting small coffee farmers fairly, and bringing awareness to animal rescues, specifically cats. That is how Toe Beans Coffee Bar was born. Toe Beans works with local rescues, getting donations for food and supplies while bringing awareness to the desperate need for cat fosters and adoptions. We also bring awareness to the importance of using local Florida-based businesses that support Fair Trade Coffee and want to see the small coffee farmers succeed and thrive in their business.

Initially, we had planned to start a cat cafe here in Flagler County, after I had visited one in Denver Colorado about 6 years ago. Somewhere along the line, the idea morphed into the mobile coffee cart and truck/trailer, where we can provide coffee to the community while educating the community on fostering, adopting, and supporting our local cat rescues. 

Toe Beans partners with Buddy Brew in Tampa Florida. They are a local Florida coffee roasting company, that only purchases coffee beans from small coffee farmers and women-owned co-ops, and Buddy Brew pays a fair and equitable price to those small farmers. It is incredibly important to us to partner with a local company that supports the same fair and equitable trade ethics that we do.