DH
Delia Hollifield
Founder & green buyer
Sources every lot, keeps the farm relationships, still cups every batch before it bags.
Home / Story
It started with one bad cup and a stubborn old drum.
Hollow Oak began in 2019, when a home roaster and a line cook decided Burlington deserved coffee with the roast date on the bag. This is a fictional demo, but the story is the kind we build sites around.
2019
Under the oak on Millrace Road
Delia Hollifield had been roasting in her garage for years. Marcus Reyes could pull a shot but not source a bean. They met over a genuinely terrible airport coffee, argued about why it was terrible, and signed a lease under the big oak on Millrace Road three months later.
The tree is why we are Hollow Oak, and why the roast date matters to us: coffee, like the tree, is only as good as its roots and its rings. We put both on the bag.
What we hold to
Four things we will not roast around
Roots before reach
We would rather buy one farm's coffee for ten years than chase the cheapest lot every season.
Honest by default
We publish what we pay and stamp the roast date. If a bag is not good enough, it does not ship.
A room to linger
The cafe is a place, not a drive-through. Good chairs, slow mornings, no rush to turn the table.
Lighter footprint
Recyclable bags, carbon-neutral shipping, spent grounds to the community garden two doors down.
The people
Who is behind the counter
MR
Marcus Reyes
Head roaster
Rebuilt the 1962 drum by hand and writes every roast curve we run.
TN
Tess Nakamura
Cafe lead
Runs the bar, trains the baristas, and knows your order before you reach the register.
People and roles are illustrative fiction for this demo.
Fresh Tuesdays
Good coffee, roots down, at your door every month.
Pick a roast, pick a rhythm, and let us handle the rest. Skip, swap, or cancel from your account whenever life does something unexpected.