From Modest BeginNings:

Beginning in the early years, during the waning of the last century, the coffee beans were roasted 'old school' in iron skillets brought to temperature by our founder Christopher Evans.  As the business model blossomed, he created labels that were applied to small paper sacks using hand-carved 'cuttings'. Initially, he had one customer, a farm stand located just down the road.  In 2023, after growing the business that exists today, Christopher relinquished his ownership in order to further enjoy his personal interests; including spending time out-of-doors with two rascal fur missiles, the Maligators, Rex and Buck.  His veteran son, Derek, is at the helm now and continues to provide the excellent service and product that our customers enjoy and are accustomed. 

The company mantra remains the same: Grow slow and keep it simple.  Maintain the balance.

We're a tad bit more sophisticated in our production now when compared to those 'good old days'. Using a state of the art roasting system and precision weigh / fill / sealing equipment in our licensed and insured processing environment, we are able to meet the high capacity demand from our wholesale buyers while tending the needs of individuals who can buy from us directly in quantities as small as one pound, freshly fire roasted.

The specialty seeds that we use are sourced from dedicated farmers from around the globe and then tumble roasted above a hot bed of fire. The results are the makings for deliciously fresh coffee.

Our objective is to produce the freshest possible product for our customers.  Half jokingly, we claim that our fresh coffees could ship to the Maritime provinces and they'd still be roaster warm by the time they arrived.

We don't mess with tea, chai or foolishly expensive and stale, expensive K-Cups.  We never produce pre-flavored coffees or re-sell coffee makers and doodads, muffins, frappamochachino la tee dahs.  No overseas produced junk.  No processed sugar products.  Very little waste.

What this world doesn't need is more litter along the landscape, or another billion K Cup pods in our landfills.

We create freshly roasted, deliciously wonderful coffee for people who do for themselves. We don't actively offer our products to restaurants, cafes and resellers of brewed coffee.  To date, we've roasted the beans for over 10 million cups of coffee and our customers continue to return for more; many, since the very beginning.  From our slice of heaven to yours, we trust that you'll enjoy the freshest coffee from one of our favorite places on earth, Canterbury, NH.

Enjoy!

Derek Evans, GraniteLedgeCoffee.com