Alumni Spotlight By Linda Hedman Beyus
Hannah Ogden Binninger ’90 tends the coffee roaster.
Roasting Coffee, Raising Kids Hannah Ogden Binninger ’90
Landgrove Coffee’s family-friendly front office.
has a commute that suits running a business and home-schooling two children. Landgrove Coffee roastery in northern Idaho, owned and operated by Binninger and her husband, Jon, sits a quarter of a mile from their house. “We have been very fortunate to raise our family alongside running the business,” Binninger says. How this all came to be involves a coffee drive-through and some baby falcons. Binninger was working at the Peregrine
Fund as a field biologist rearing falcons for release into the wild. Early each morning she would stop at a Boise coffee shop on her way back from shipping birds to release sites. Jon was running that shop, and the rest is history, as they say. “When I met Jon he was interested in getting out of the retail side of business and into wholesale,” she says. “We also both loved the idea of roasting coffee and being a part of the supply side of the industry. He was also tired of the long continued on page 6—
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