Coffey Grounds Farm

From its humble beginnings as a small vegetable garden in 2011, Coffey Grounds Farm evolved into a full-scale event space and pick-your-own produce and flower garden as a direct response to one woman’s passion for quality food and the needs of her community. Janet Coffey and her husband Don built their Stilwell property back in 1989 and added their signature barn 6 years later as a home for their horses Whiskey and Chief. Janet later added a small produce garden. Over time, the garden got bigger. And bigger. And a little bigger. Soon, Janet was donating their abundance of produce to a local church. When the pandemic hit and uprooted everyone’s lives, Janet poured her heart into the garden that would soon become Coffey Grounds Farm (a cute play on her name that Janet thought up YEARS ago). She continued to expand the garden, adding flowers which she sold alongside her produce through Next Door and a small card table on the corner. Janet and Don quickly uncovered a need for positive work experiences for the youth in Stilwell, so they brought in local kids to help her tend to, harvest, and sell Janet’s produce. Janet even got her first chicken, even though Don threatened to divorce her if she added chickens to her repertoire (don’t worry, he didn’t!). Her little card table corner stand got a major upgrade when Janet found a truck bed for $300 that she could repurpose. Around this time, she also started welcoming visitors into her horse barn and gardens for tours, which sparked an idea. What if we could offer farm-to-table dinners here in the barn? They no longer needed the barn for their horses, so the space was sitting there, full of opportunities and old bits of hay. Janet was already offering fresh, homemade pasta and bread from her little blue truck bed stand. The feeling of a family-oriented space was dear to their hearts. What’s more family-oriented than dinner? One remodel later, Janet’s dreams are realized. Coffey Grounds Farm is now a d