PEACE MACHINE COFFEE

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

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

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

A lot of people start a business because they worked somewhere, saw everything wrong with how it was being run, and thought "I could do this better." That’s not really why I started Peace Machine. Honestly, it's closer to why someone starts a band. Not because music is broken and needs fixing, but because you’ve heard so many songs that moved you, and at some point you just have to make something too. You want to be part of the conversation. You want to see if you can make so