Now you might ask why a farming Estate has a coffeehouse, but you need to know that we host everything from curling tournaments to weddings here as they bring in more than a little bit of needed revenue for the Estate. And it was some twenty five years was when we first started getting enquiries about where visitors could get a coffee. Well there was really no place so we decided to create such a space.
Being us, we decided to think differently. And that meant a yurt was where it was to be. Now our yurts are wooden sided and roofed with slates with triple panned windows to keep them cozy even in the cool fall weather: an elegant design I’d say. It was one of our bigger yurts, nearly ten meters across. We’d laid power to from the mill pond generator and plumbed up water tank for it, seasonal use only of course.
We’ve been roasting our own coffee for sometime as we consume a lot of it. We use good beans, not hideously expensive for the most part though we do treat ourselves to Kona and Jamaican Blue Mountain, so this added usage wasn’t a big deal. The space itself has drip coffee makers, a cappuccino machine, a hot chocolate maker and of course tea making equipment. No food is served as they can get that elsewhere.
We don’t use disposable plastic or paper cups but rather use high durability glassware or ceramic instead. Yes we have some breakage but it reduces unneeded recycling. We encourage guests to help by picking up these at stations where they’re left and returning them to the coffeehouse.
The coffeehouse has seating, just a dozen seats but enough, and plenty of natural lighting. There’s also seating outside as well.
And it runs at a tidy profit as, unlike the Kitchen, even staff pay here. So let’s go take it a look at it.
