Adam’s Flying Pig Coffee House started out as a mother’s dream to create a space for her son Story Taylor Burnette | Photography Jeremy Holtzapfel
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wner Tammy Salmons fi st dreamed up her coffee shop over 10 years ago to provide a space for adults with disabilities to work while serving up some tasty drinks and other goods to the community. As Salmons worked towards her dream, friends and family joked that the coffee house would open up “when pigs fly.” However, the pigs did take flight, a d Adam’s Flying Pig Coffee House is now located at 9107
Ohio River Rd Unit A in Wheelersburg, Ohio. Salmons also named it after her son, Adam. “The reason we wanted to do this was because my son has autism,” Salmons said. “I just wanted to have something that he could always fi d employment with, and then he has different friends with different disabilities also, and I wanted to be able to incorporate hiring people like him or those with different challenges.” Currently, Adam works in the shop, but Salmons
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