about

We strive to be rooted in the specificity of place. Each coffee we present suggests its origin through its appearance, aroma, and taste. We wanted our company also to reflect that rootedness which is how we came to choose our name and logo. Most travelers move over Cornwall Bridge and never see under to admire its modernist construction, the way it has come to blend into the natural surroundings and become a visual focal point for our friends and neighbors who live in its shadows.

Our journey with coffee roasting began when we met Eric Stogsdill, founder of Alana's Coffee, at a farmer's market in West Los Angeles. We learned to roast in his garage and still apply what he taught us to how we select and roast coffees. We roast in small batches on a Diedrich IR-3, a very similar model to the one on which we learned.

Cornwall Bridge

Connecting the village of Cornwall Bridge to Sharon over the Housatonic River, the Cornwall Bridge is the largest concrete open spandrel bridge in Connecticut. Built by C.W. Blakeslee and Sons it has spanned the Housatonic River since 1930. For six years, it stood beside an older covered bridge, which had long served as a entry into the commercial center of Cornwall Bridge. Already relegated to serving pedestrians, the historic flood of 1936 swept the covered bridge away and it was never replaced, leaving the town's only covered bridge in West Cornwall. The flood occurred at a time when the town's commercial center was already moving away from the river to capture motor vehicle traffic along the newly modernized confluence of Routes 4 and 7. Cornwall Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.