A Sweet History
Our Story
The Dansville Granola Company was started by Mary Alioto after initially crafting her granola for the apple orchard and farm store she and her husband owned for 25 years in Maine. When they retired from the orchard and moved to the Finger Lakes Region, she knew she wanted to bring the granola business with her. Moving to Dansville, the birthplace of granola, felt like destiny.
Mary began making her original small-batch Dansville Granola Company granola in January, 2021 in a leased commercial kitchen. In December 2022, the operation moved into its own commercial kitchen and retail store in a historic building right on Main Street of Dansville, New York.
Made with only the best ingredients and locally sourced maple syrup, our granola is a healthy addition to daily life. Whether a local friend or shopping from afar online, we hope you enjoy our delicious granola.
Made in Dansville, New York, the birthplace of granola.
photos from Dansville Area Historical Society
Granula was invented in 1863 by Dr. James Caleb Jackson at the Jackson Sanitarium, a prominent health spa on the hillside overlooking Dansville. It was also known as Our Home on the Hillside; thus the company formed to sell Jackson's cereal was known as the Our Home Granula Company.
Originally invented as a cereal, granola was revived as a health food snack in the 1960s with the addition of fruits and nuts. The snack was popular with the health and nature-oriented hippie movement, which is how the "crunchy-granola" label originated.