Hare & Crow

I'll be out of the shop from Friday, June 19 - Thursday, June 25 for a short summer break & birthday celebration with the family. I'll be back at it next Friday, June 26. Hope y'all have a great Father's Day weekend! Show those Dad's out there how much you love them!! See you soon.

P.s. I had the joy of meeting Steve Ozone yesterday. He stopped in for a haircut while visiting Fort Scott for a very cool photography project. It was a privilege to have my photo taken by him! I can't wait to see the work that comes out of his trip to our neck of the woods! Thanks for stopping in Steve!

We’re getting ready to launch a newsletter called Stories From the Crow’s Nest. We promise not to bombard your inbox with nonsense, but we would love to share some tidbits about the barbershop, why we’re here, what we’re all about and, of course, let y’all in on the details of our upcoming move. If you’d like to stay in the loop, follow the link in our bio to sign up. Thanks for following along!

We will be closed this Saturday, May 9th for a family birthday celebration. Be sure to swing by today and Friday to get your graduation and Mother’s Day haircuts.

Have no fear though, Branch Coffee will be open on Saturday for your weekend coffee fix!

Y’all have questions…

After my last post, I’ve been fielding quite a few queries and concerns. So, I figured I’d better answer them. I’ll start with the most important:

Is Hare & Crow closing? NO. We will be moving the barbershop out to our family farm just a couple miles north of town. But not right away…

When are you moving? We will stay right where we’re at until the new shop is built out and ready. It should be a seamless transition.

Not really a question, but I had a few folks congratulated me on my retirement. NOPE. I honestly don’t think I could ever really retire. Lord willing, I’ll be cutting hair for many years to come. I’m only 41 after all.

Now, back to my daydreaming with the door open on this beautiful day! I’ve got some plans to work out for the new shop…

You may have heard already—— small town life, am I right?—— we have some news for you…

After nearly 6 years, we have sold our building. That said, Hare & Crow and Branch Coffee aren’t going anywhere right away. We are working on plans to build what I am lovingly referring to as the Barber Cabin on our family place just a few minutes north of downtown Fort Scott. Branch Coffee will remain here for the foreseeable future.

There are several reasons for the move and I’ll share more as things progress. For now, the most important reason is that I find myself torn between two very different facets of the same life. I am, first and foremost, a husband, father and agrarian (read homesteader/farmer). I long to be on our home place with my family. At the same time, I thoroughly enjoy the work I do in town as a barber and truly believe it is a gift to share the joy of doing good work for and among my friends and neighbors. I can’t imagine putting one aside for the other, but I also know I can’t do either as well as I’d like to if the two are so divided. So, I am bringing the barbershop home. We’d love to have you over to sit for a spell and get your ears lowered. Who knows, you may find yourself enchanted by our contrarian life on the land and stay to sit on the porch with a cup of coffee and watch the cows graze while the sun drifts westward.

Stay tuned for more details as our plans unfold. In the meantime, we’ll be right here where you left us.

The barbershop will be closed Thursday, February 26 for a family birthday celebration. But have no fear, the branch coffee bar will be open for your daily coffee fix. Come say hi to a Ken. He’d love to make you some tasty coffee goodness! We’ll see ya on Friday to take care of the wild hairs of yours.

Today was a great first day at

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We’d love to see you tomorrow!
We’ll be here making coffee from 9am-3pm.

We’ve got coffee beans all bagged up just for you. Come pick one up at the Fort Scott Farmer’s Market tomorrow morning! Or sleep in a little and we’ll have them waiting for you on the shelf here at the shop.

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See that doggy in the window? Yeah, his name is Toby. He's not for sale, but he does have a waggly tail—well, sort of; he's a Corgi, so his tail is very short—and he really wants you to come get coffee from his best friend, Ken at the Fort Scott Farmer's Market tomorrow morning.

Thanks for the photo

We couldn’t be more excited about serving coffee at the Fort Scott Farmer’s Market And we’re really excited about opening the Branch Coffee Bar in the very near future. Stay tuned for more info soon. In the meantime time, stop by our booth at the market next Saturday and let us take care of your morning coffee while you peruse all the goodies from our incredible local farmers!

In honor of the upcoming opening of their coffee bar, Hare & Crow will be serving coffee at the market the next few weeks! Stop in and show them some love!