As with wine, a coffee's taste depends on the quality of a fruit and the way that fruit is transformed into a beverage. Like freshly baked bread, fresh roasted coffee has an extremely short shelf life. The maximum time for freshness is five days, regardless of packaging. The sooner you brew coffee after you roast is the better the cup of coffee!

Montes De Oro (MDO) is a coffee farming cooperative with over 500 family farm members growing the only certified sustainable coffee in the world. MDO is an award winning specialty coffee producer in Costa Rica. Their coffee is certified fair trade, organic, shade-grown, and solar-dried.

For those interested in learning more about coffee, Merchants of Green Coffee offers monthly Coffee School courses.