

Coffee & New Friends
So I’ve been doing this thing called Coffee & New Friends, and I want to explain it a bit. The idea is simple: show up to a park, bring cold brew mocktails, hand them out for free, hang out. That’s it. No agenda. No pitch. Just a reason for people to come stand in the same place and maybe talk to someone they don’t know yet. Fort Collins is a pretty friendly city, but finding community in a new place is always hard. It's easy to feel like you're on the outside of something an


Here’s What Actually Goes Into a Bag of Peace Machine Coffee
Most people don’t think much about what happens between a coffee plant and their morning cup. Honestly, neither did I for a long time. But once I started roasting, it kind of took over my brain in the best way. Here’s the short version of what goes into every bag we sell. It starts with green beans – unroasted coffee that looks and smells almost nothing like what you’re used to. I source them from importers who work directly with farms, which means I know the country, the reg


The Baby Shower
I didn’t plan for last Saturday to go the way it did. I set up near the pavilion like usual, got everything ready, and pretty quickly realized there was a baby shower happening maybe thirty feet away. A full one – decorations, people dressed up, the whole thing. My first thought was honestly just hoping I wasn’t in the way. But then people started wandering over. And they were so genuinely happy to be there, happy to be celebrating something, happy to have a cold drink handed









