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Disc Golf Course Opens in Buena Vista

At long last, with the Town of Buena Vista’s recently adopted Recreation Plan in hand, a team of disc golfers raised money and donated a heck of a lot of sweat to open Buena Vista’s first 9 holes of disc golf. [...]

BV Roastery Latte Competition!

Last Friday, we held our first ever latte competition here at the Buena Vista Roastery, and what a fun night it [...]

First Fair Trade Town in CO

Buena Vista has become a Fair Trade Town, the first in Colorado and the 14th in the nation. Here is the post from TransFair [...]

Art and Coffee

Still, no matter how well we like to think we are doing in our ‘art with coffee’, there is somewhere new, like Coffee on Paper. [...]

Green Tea: Can It Cure What Ails You??

Apparently, what makes green tea so special is the way it’s extracted: instead of the usual method for tea-making, fermentation, the leaves of the Camellia Sinensis plant are steamed. This allows the tea to retain all of its natural goodness, primarily the [...]

350 International Day of Climate Change

Yesterday there were quite a few locals out to show their support for the 350 River [...]

Peaberry’s Shuts its Doors

Peaberry’s Shuts its Doors

A year ago we, the Buena Vista Roastery, participated in a ‘coffee-off’ vying for a substantial account. Peaberry’s Coffee gave a presentation with a slide show and coffee samples. We gave one as well and got the account, beating out three other roasters. The guy from Peaberry’s commended our ‘thing,’ as in [...]

Banning the Laptop

Banning the Laptop

I’ve known that this sort of thing happens locally from time to time – a cafe owner shoes away customers who are spending too much time sitting at a table reading, playing a game, using a computer, et cetera. I’ve always felt as if it counteracts the great marketing plan of keeping your [...]

Governor Ritter Stops in BV

Governor Ritter Stops in BV

We’re taking some Trailhead Blend coffee down to our meeting with Governor Ritter this morning. There should be 20-50 people gathering at South Main for a kickoff of some sort. If you’re in town, come one by.

From Lee Hart of Collegiate Peaks Geotourism writes in her article, “Gov. Ritter [...]

Dust off the Kayaks! – Paddlefest 2009

Reminder: Paddlefest 2009

As I wrote back in March, ’tis the season, once again. The mighty Arkansas River is rising, the waters turning chocolate. Our big kickoff to river season is Paddlefest, May 22-25, 2009. This what the folk at Colorado Kayak Supply have to say,

Come to Buena Vista, Colorado for huge kickoff party to celebrate [...]