Friends & Neighbors...

Alterra Coffee
Good roasters make good neighbors...did someone say that? They could have, because it means freshly roasted coffee is never more than a good Brett Favre hail-mary pass away. The city's premier source for fair-trade, organic, and other great coffees is just down the street on Prospect Avenue.

East Side Association
The East Side B.I.D. and East Side Association represent Milwaukee's most exciting retail, entertainment, and residential district. Located between Lake Michigan, the Milwaukee River, Downtown, and UWM, we are actively involved in the conscientious development of an enhanced business district designed for people looking for a dynamic place to live, work, shop, and relax.

OurMilwaukee
Beans & Barley is proud to be a founding member of Our Milwaukee, a group of local, independent, homegrown Milwaukee businesses. This group— comitted to shameless self-promotion—is dedicated to maintaining a vibrant, thriving, local economy grounded in the strength of local independents.

Outpost Natural Foods
Beans & Barley and The Outpost are siblings, having appeared on the Milwaukee health food and co-op scene (can you say "hippie"?) at about the same time. Both started out very modestly, and grew as customers demanded. Though having grown in different directions over the years, today we enjoy a very comradely relationship, and we encourage you all to stop by.

OCA (Organic Consumers Association)
The OCA is a grassroots non-profit public interest organization which eals with crucial issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, corporate accountability, and environmental sustainability. We are the only organization in the US focused exclusively on representing the views and interests of the nation's estimated ten million organic consumers.

Ode Magazine
Lots of magazines we could link to here (& sure, they'd be those inflammatory, lefty rags), but this one's different. Very hard to pigeonhole, and very...optimistic. Ready for that?

The Riverside Theater
The Pabst and Riverside Theaters are local treasures, and integral to the vibrancy of performing arts in the city of Milwaukee.  They, along with a number of others, have partnered to increase awareness of the many original, locally owned and community focused businesses here. Accross the country, local independents face daunting competition from the chains and "big box" stores.  At the same time local businesses like Beans & Barley, Outpost Natural Foods, Alterra Coffee, are keeping the local economy and cutural scene healthy. Join us!

Urban Ecology Center
Living in the city doesn't mean being out of touch with our natural environment. In their roles as both students and teachers of Urban Ecology, these folks are a priceless resource for Milwaukeeans. Visit the Center, along the Milwaukee River, just south of Riverside High School at Oakland & Locust.

The Yoga Society of Milwaukee
This center right here in the neighborhood has study and classroom facilites. Started a couple of years before Beans & Barley, focusing on the teachings of Sri Swami Rama.