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So Many Choices

We carry a LOT of coffees, and it can be intimidating to new customers.  the three best-selling coffees this year have been:1-Outdoorsy Sumatra2-Inspirational Artist’s Blend3-Get in Gear Morning BlendThey sell...

Iced Tea

Iced Tea is refreshing, delicious, and good for you!  It contains antioxidants and often vitamins and fruits.  If you want the caffeine choose a Black Tea or Green Tea.  To...

Coffee Nursery

Coffee plants are grown for a year in a nursery area like this before being transplanted next to the mature trees.  It will take 4 years for these plants to...

Seeds And Plants

Here is a picture of coffee plant that I am presently trying to keep alive (it is not a happy coffee plant). Coffee beans, are not “beans” they are seeds...

Tasting Coffee

Several years ago, coffee tasters sat down and wrote out every flavor and characteristic that might be found in a cup of coffee, and organized it into a circle.  If...

Cleaning Day

roasting coffee beans creates smoke. the smoke is pushed up the exhaust pipe. the pipe is left with deposits of creosote.   creosote is flammable, so buildup becomes a fire hazard. ...

Best Seller Lists For 2013

i just ran a report that shows the best selling products on the website so far in 2013.  this list doesn’t include any wholesale orders — it only counts retail...

Coffee Chaff

when coffee is roasting, it expands, pops, and little pieces of chaff break away from the bean.  it smells somewhat like hay, is feather-light, extremely flammable.  if you brew it...

Drink Tea. Be Happy.

when i looked into selling tea, i wanted nothing boring.  i wanted tea that would rock your world.  make you re-think the whole class of beverage.  make you still think...

Customer Appreciation Sale

All coffees on the website are $1 off per pound this month. This sale is also happening at the Meadville Markethouse.

Growing Pains

we are moving! the construction is happening beginning today. we have found a space about 50 miles away that will provide twice the inventory space without increasing our overhead costs,...

Pipeline

there can be as much as 6-8 weeks of lag-time from the time i lock in a great coffee, to when it actually arrives. so for 6-8 weeks, i am...