Lawrence resident Michael Schaetzel’s Greenstone Coffee recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of its first roast, which coincided with Schaetzel’s father’s birthday and Earth Day. Schaetzel said he was first excited about every pound of coffee sold. Today, the company is moving hundreds of pounds of coffee as it expands to grocery shelves and local coffee shops.

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Michael Schaetzel pulls a trowel of beans from his roaster as he sniffs their aroma during the roasting process.

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Michael Schaetzel's business partner and soon-to-be brother-in-law Brandon Rose packages and labels bags of Greenstone Coffee.

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Michael Schaetzel measures out a bucket before roasting in a storage room for all of his varieties of coffee beans from over a half dozen countries.

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Michael Schaetzel keeps an experimentation log of all of his roasts in what he jokes is his "little black book."

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Local coffee roaster and owner of Greenstone Coffee Michael Schaetzel pours coffee beans into his industrial roaster at his facility west of Stull. It has been a year since Schaetzel's first roast and nine months since he began selling his coffee in stores and local coffee shops.

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Michael Schaetzel's business partner and soon-to-be brother-in-law, Brandon Rose, pulls a handful of beans to show their green color prior to being roasted.

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Freshly-roasted beans are cooled and sifted. Nick Krug/Journal-World Photo