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Sandhill Coffee Gift Guide: Supporting Local This Christmas

To help you navigate local shopping this year, we’ve put together a local gift guide of our favorite products from small businesses in and around Chicago. Whether you’re buying for your brother who’s a health-nut, your aunt who’s a food connoisseur, or your daughter who can’t get enough adventure, our guide’s got you covered.

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5 Ways to Make Coffee at Your Campsite

5 Ways to Make Coffee at Your Campsite And a short story about the best cup of camp coffee I’ve ever brewed. -Erica Zazo-   My partner and I packed up our tiny Ford Fiesta in downtown Chicago and headed north to Wisconsin for a weekend camping trip. However, this wasn’t your average campout. It was a backpacking trip along the Ice Age Trail in the middle of winter.   It was also the weekend I had the best cup of camp coffee – ever.   Some folks might call us crazy. But we were excited to hit the trail with the slim chance of seeing anyone else for multiple days. When we arrived at the Kettle Moraine Northern Unit...

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5 Best Campgrounds Close to Chicago

We know many of you in the Sandhill Coffee community love spending time outdoors. It’s what our brand is all about – supporting, exploring, and enjoying the environment around us.  From throwing a fishing line into the Great Lakes to kayaking a winding water trail to shredding fresh powder on the slopes, there are so many ways to enjoy all the forests, waterways, and pure wilderness across the Midwest.

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Meet the Sandhill Mobile Cafe: A Q&A with Phil

Meet the Sandhill Mobile Cafe: A Q&A with Phil Written by Erica Zazo The wait is finally over! We’re so excited to introduce you to our new Sandhill Mobile Cafe. In this Q&A, we sit down with founder of Sandhill Coffee, Phil Wingo, who talks about how he came up with the idea for the mobile coffee trailer, where the Sandhill coffee community can find us this summer, and all the details on this new, exciting edition to Sandhill. What was your vision for the truck? This June, Sandhill Coffee celebrates our fourth year in business. I am very grateful to make it to this point. Each year, more and more people join our coffee community, and it is amazing...

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