RABBIT COFFEE ROASTING CO. IT’S ALL IN THE BEAN Writer / Lois Tomaszewski Photographer / Jubilee Edgell
It is estimated that 83% of American adults drink coffee. Mary and Nathan Bradley, the owners of Rabbit Coffee Roasting Co. are helping fill cups locally with their locally roasted products. Rabbit Coffee’s location at 10 S. Main Street in Knox, offers locally-roasted and freshly ground coffee for sale by the pound. But it is also open six days a week to provide the coffee shop experience to their community. “We have a full coffee shop,” Bradley says. “We can make almost any coffee drink and we have bagels, muffins, cookies and built protein bars to munch on.”
Owners Mary and Nathan Bradley with their kids.
Rabbit Coffee was purchased by the couple in 2019. Bradley says the name is derived from the book Watership Down, with a little Peter Rabbit and Alice in Wonderland mixed in. Rabbit Coffee is a recent development in the Bradleys’ coffee enterprises. “We started roasting in our house with a one pound roaster back in 2013 and then we started our business, Serving Grounds, in 2014 just wholesaling to other businesses,” Bradley says. “We just opened our coffee shop in October 2019.” The Bradleys’ coffee reflects a global
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