Our Story
Where the Peace River Meets the Open Range
A Taste of Old Florida — No Hard Work Required
Cow Hunters & Cabbage Palms
Long before the highways came, the Peace River country of DeSoto County belonged to the cow hunters. These were Cracker cowboys who worked wild scrub cattle through the palmetto flats with a good horse, a cow dog, and the rifle-shot crack of a whip.
They watered herds at the creeks, made camp on the bluffs, and drove cattle to the Gulf, where ships bound for Cuba paid in Spanish gold. When the railroad came through, a cow camp became a town. That town is Arcadia.
The Places Behind the Names
Every Saddle & Palmetto coffee is named for a piece of this country’s history.
Light-Medium Roast
Joshua Creek Sunup
Joshua Creek is where the cow hunters watered their herds. We named our lightest roast for the early mornings at the start of a long day’s ride.
Medium Roast · Our Flagship
Tater Hill Bluff
A high spot along the Peace River where the cow camps were made. Our everyday cup, and the one we put in our K-cups.
Dark Roast
Thanksgiving 1905
On Thanksgiving Day 1905, fire took downtown Arcadia. The town rebuilt it in brick, and much of that brick still stands. Our boldest roast honors a town that wouldn’t quit.
Our Badge
1883 · Florida Heritage
The year on our badge is a nod to the era when this was still open range and the cow camps were becoming towns. It marks a heritage, not a founding date.
Why Saddle & Palmetto
We live just up the road from Arcadia. We wanted a coffee that tells this country’s story, so the people who drink it know a little more about the Peace River and the folks who settled it.
Our coffee is roasted to order by an experienced partner roaster and packed in our own bags. Every bag carries the story, and every order brings a postcard from Wes’s journey through Old Florida.