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A SparkPoint × Pisgah Coffee Roasters collaboration
Thrive @ Five · Third annual releaseCommon GroundResilience Roast
Coffee roasted for connection. A limited-edition micro-lot from Pisgah Coffee Roasters — a family-owned roastery in the Blue Ridge Mountains — supporting SparkPoint’s new Resilience Hub all August long.
Friday, July 31 · Full recap
Watch the night in full.
From the first pour to the last song, this is what a season of connection looks like in Transylvania County — neighbors, coffee, and Mark & Sally Wingate closing out the night alongside Sarah Siskind.
Every bag of Common Ground sold through August helps fund SparkPoint’s new Resilience Hub — Pisgah Coffee Roasters is giving half of August’s profits straight to the build.
The third annual collaboration
Meet Common Ground Resilience Roast.
A light roast micro-lot created by Pisgah Coffee Roasters and SparkPoint to celebrate the connections that make our community stronger.
Pick up a limited-edition bag, taste what a season of collaboration tastes like, and help move SparkPoint’s Resilience Hub one step closer to open.
50%
of all profits from August sales of Common Ground will be donated by Pisgah Coffee Roasters to help complete SparkPoint’s new Resilience Hub.
The roasters behind the roast
Coffee runs in the Lipsi family.
Jotham Lipsi grew up on his family’s coffee estate in Minas Gerais, Brazil — over 300,000 trees, tended by a lineage that traces back to ancestors who emigrated from Italy to Brazil’s coffee country in the late 1800s. His father, Jonathan, an agronomist, ran the farm and supplied wholesale beans long before either of them roasted a cup for the public.
In 2004, Jotham came to Brevard College and fell for the mountains. Six years later, father and son opened Pisgah Coffee Roasters in Pisgah Forest — a family-owned roastery built on the same values they’d always worked by, just an ocean away. Their beans still come from Brazil’s Cerrado region, where familial bonds endure with the land. Their motto says the rest: Global Coffee. Local Flavor.
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A collaboration that keeps giving back.
Every August, Pisgah Coffee Roasters and SparkPoint release a limited coffee honoring someone — or something — building Transylvania County’s future.
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Common Ground Resilience Roast
After a 2025 pause for Hurricane Helene recovery, investing in SparkPoint’s new Resilience Hub.Availablenow
Take home the roast
Buy a bag. Build the Hub.
Common Ground Resilience Roast will be available through Pisgah Coffee Roasters beginning August 1. For the full month, half of the profits from every bag help SparkPoint build the new Resilience Hub in downtown Brevard.
Purchase the coffee
Concept visionWhat your coffee helps build
A permanent home for connection.
The Resilience Hub is being shaped as a welcoming community resource center: a place to find services, discover ways to volunteer, bring organizations together, and turn shared challenges into coordinated action.
Every bag of Common Ground sold in August helps move that vision forward.
Explore the Resilience HubCoffee roasted for connection
Two local organizations. One shared table.
This limited release brings SparkPoint’s connection-first mission together with the craft and community spirit of a family-owned roaster that’s called Pisgah Forest home since 2010.
Pisgah Forest, North Carolina
Stop by the roastery.
Pisgah Coffee Roasters
6283 Asheville Highway, Pisgah Forest