So, we launched. I'm not sure how, but sometime in June we acquired a coffee wagon, fashioned it with logos, passed inspections, whipped up a menu, and began coffee roaming. Just like that, vision became reality. For six weeks now, the kids, Tate and I have enjoyed meeting so many faces, new and now-regular customers who have lingered at the coffee wagon window, willing to have a taste. A big thanks to folks at JD Equipment, Vital Fitness, the Hillsboro Farmer's Market, the F

So, the new coffee roaster is en route, and we couldn't be more excited to try it out. Consequently, we've had lots of 'quality assurance' volunteers stepping forward to sample the goods. Invite yourselves over, we don't mind. The impending arrival of the roaster has also prompted us to finalize our product bags and labels, and to think through how best to convey what's inside. We wanted the design to convey the no-nonsense modality of the brand. Because we love a throwback m

Somehow we've found ourselves back in the classroom, studying geography, climatology, chemistry, and statistics. The roasting process is tricky, but we are not intimidated. Fostering green coffee beans to create a beautifully-brown roast that can be ground and brewed to perfection is, well, complicated. Some insight... [Sidebar, if you are a coffee expert and reading this, you may judge us as novice and inexperienced. We don't care. We are farmers serving coffee to farmers--f

Nearly 20 years ago, before weddings and kids, my now-husband and I had a dream. We talked about it often and it went something like this: someday when we're older, more stable and focused, let's invest in a coffee shop. "It will be different," I would say. Instead of attracting the fast-paced commuters during rush hour, or the disheveled parents en route to too-early Saturday soccer games, our shop would cater to farmers, yes! After all, in southwestern Ohio, farmers do make