NEW EPISODE OF @cultureapothecary OUT NOW with the founders of @firefly.coffee and creators of @breakingbigfood Patrick and Ashley Sullivan ☕️🌿 Find anywhere you listen to podcasts or ‘Real Alex Clark’ on YouTube 📺 Comment ‘COFFEE’ and I’ll DM you a link to the episode! 🔗💌
This Scottsdale coffee shop nearly got shut down for serving raw milk lattes — and Big Food is losing it over this story. ☕
I sit down with Patrick and Ashley Sullivan of Firefly Organic Coffee Shop & Market (exec producers of Breaking Big Food, streaming now on Apple TV & Amazon Prime) to spill the truth about the American food system, the fight for clean food, and our absolute must-hit Phoenix spots. 🌿
What milk do you prefer? 🥛
New movie - BREAKING BIG FOOD... 40 years ago, Big Tobacco hijacked our food system. Today, a group of local “Davids” are fighting to take it back.
Coming to Apple TV & Amazon Prime Video on Thanksgiving.
Starting in the 1980s, cigarette companies began to acquire the largest food companies in America. Over the last 40 years, the American food system has gotten “forked” beyond all recognition. Calley Means, a former DC lobbyist, explains the broken incentive structure of how “Big Food” manipulates “Big Government” leading to garbage in our grocery stores, which he contends may in fact be the culprit lurking behind the horrifying health statistics in America over that same time period.
But there is hope… you’ll be inspired as we follow what’s happening at the local level where renegade local businesses – such as Shake Up SuperFoods, Good Living Greens, Firefly Organic Coffee & Market, and others work with local farms – like Inspire Farms, Crow’s Dairy, Arizona Grass Fed Beef Company, and others to bring clean, organic, healthy food back to the people in their community.
Watch the first 2 minutes at BreakingBigFood.com
New in Scottsdale! This cute coffee spot just opened recently and serves clean, organic coffee, pastries, and has a small market section with raw milk, farm-fresh eggs, Arizona grass-fed beef, and more. The best part? There’s a private pickleball court next door with open play for just $10 per person — one of the lowest rates I’ve seen. Great for coffee dates, a quick healthy market run, or sneaking in a pickleball session.
📍 @firefly.coffee
9035 E Pima Center Pkwy, Scottsdale, AZ
✨ FIREFLY IS TURNING ONE ✨
Can you believe it? Firefly Organic Coffee & Market is celebrating its 1-year birthday, and we’d love to celebrate with the community that helped make this first year so special. 💚
What started as a dream to create a magical place for mold-free coffee, clean ingredients, and community connection, has become so much more because of all of you. 🥹🙏
Come celebrate with us at our Wonderful Wellness Anniversary Celebration:
✨ Meet some of the Valley’s top wellness vendors
🚚 Be there for Schef’s Farm’s brand new food truck unveiling
🍔 Their famous grass-fed smash burgers
☕ Organic coffee, matcha, and Firefly favorites
🛍 Curated shopping + wellness discoveries
❄️ Indoors & air-conditioned at The Orchard
📍 Firefly Organic Coffee & Market / The Orchard @ Jigsaw Health
🗓 Sunday, May 24th
⏰ 10am–2pm
@schefsfarms grass-fed smash burgers are at @firefly.coffee and this is your sign to go get one. 🍔🔥
Because THIS is what I mean when I say food quality matters.
Not all burgers are the same.
Most burgers come from an industrial food system that is brutal from every angle.
Animals raised in stressful, toxic environments.
Antibiotics.
Hormones.
Vaccines.
Low-quality feed.
Toxic ingredients.
Seed oils.
And then people wonder why they get sick and food doesn’t feel like food anymore.
Your body is not just breaking down “a burger.” It is dealing with everything that went into that burger before it ever hit your plate.
That matters.
But a grass-fed smash burger made with real ingredients, from a local Arizona farm that's family owned by Holly and Chris and they actually care about how food is grown and raised...
Completely different conversation.
Schef’s Farms is known for their fresh, local, nutrient-rich MICROGREENS grown right here in Arizona. These are not sad little garnish greens thrown on top so someone can pretend the meal is healthy.
Their microgreens are grown by hand, in organic soil, in small batches, with clean filtered well water, and they are never sprayed or rushed.
That matters too.
Microgreens may be tiny, but they are packed with nutrients, enzymes, minerals, phytonutrients, and real food energy your body actually recognizes.
And now Schef’s Farms is bringing that same standard to their grass-fed smash burgers at Firefly.
Grass-fed beef.
No seed oils.
Fresh Schef’s Farms microgreens.
Real ingredients.
Local food.
Made with intention.
This is the kind of “treat food” that does not feel like a total betrayal to your body.
Because the problem was never the burger.
The problem is what most burgers have become.
Schef’s Farms is doing it differently, and Firefly is the kind of place that gets why that matters.
If you’re local, go to Firefly Coffee and try the Schef’s Farms grass-fed smash burger.
Clean food people deserve burgers too. 🍔😉
-Monica Hershaft 🦋
@treatthesource where we reveal all of the hidden causes of your mystery symptoms! Follow for more…
#supportfarmers #grassfedbeef #scottsdal
Firefly Coffee is not your average coffee spot. ☕️✨
This is one of those places where you walk in and think…
FINALLY. People who get it.
Organic MOLD FREE coffee.
Clean ingredients.
Raw milk.
Farm fresh eggs.
Grass-fed beef.
Actual health-forward options that don’t make you feel like you need to interrogate the menu like you’re solving a crime scene. 🕵️♀️
And I love them even more because they’re the people behind The Rock Bottom Podcast, where I got to share my story about invisible illness, “normal” labs, medical gaslighting, and what it feels like when your body is screaming but nobody can tell you why.
That conversation mattered.
Because so many people are walking around feeling like crap, being told everything is “normal,” and secretly wondering if they’re crazy.
You’re not crazy.
You’re just not being tested for the right things.
And that’s why I love supporting people and brands who are willing to have real conversations about health, symptoms, food, and what it actually takes to feel good again.
Firefly is one of those places.
Clean coffee. Real food. Good humans.
We love. ☕️🦋 Shout out to the amazing owners @theashleyleroux and @patricksullivanjr and to my friends @drsandi and @thelillaura
Comment COFFEE if you want the podcast link and I’ll send it to you.
#scottsdalecoffee #healthpodcast #mysteryillness #normallabs #treatthesource
What makes the perfect cup of coffee? ☕️
According to @benjohns_pb :
�• Low acidity�• Good espresso�• Crushed ice�• And maybe a decaf after dinner
Ben Johns the Barista continues at @firefly.coffee
#BenJohns #CoffeeLover #CoffeeTok
Turns out @benjohns_pb is also a black coffee connoisseur.
His verdict on Firefly Coffee: low acidity, smooth, and no mold. ☕
We agree.
📍☕: @firefly.coffee
#BenJohns #CoffeeReview #CoffeeTok
@benjohns_pb attempted his first latte art…
And discovered something very important about coconut milk.
📍☕: @firefly.coffee
#BenJohns #CoffeeTok #latteart
