Buying green, if you roast at home
What a farm will sell you, in what quantity, and what it will not.
Minimums
Most estates will sell a kilogram to a visitor and a sack to a roaster. Between those, the price per kilo barely moves.
Ask for the current crop and the moisture reading; a farm that cannot tell you either is selling last season's stock.
Green coffee is a fresh product sold as if it were a durable one.
What to avoid
Mixed-variety bags sold without a lot number are usually the leftovers from sorting, and they roast unevenly.
If the bag has no harvest year, assume it is at least eighteen months old.
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