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Well you definitely can’t make soup or pie with it but you can brew a delicious cup of coffee! Looking at a typical coffee bean you will see it is flat on one side but round on the other. Normally inside each coffee cherry there are two beans or seeds that face each other on their flat sides. In about 5% of the cherries, only one of the two seeds gets fertilized and upon maturity is smaller, denser and more rounded than the other 95% of beans.

Some people believe that because the nutrients the plant produces for two seeds is received by only one seed, these little footballs are of higher quality. No, they do not taste notably different than their normal counterparts. The premium associated with peaberry lots comes from the extensive labor and sorting process, not the overall quality difference.

Tanzania is one of the most widely known coffee-growing countries that consistently separates a huge chunk of their coffee into Peaberry lots. With its bright acidity and aggressively flavorful roast, Tanzanian Peaberry is a medium to bold coffee with some fruity and sugar notes plus a slight tannic finish. However, peaberries do not only grow in Tanzania but in every coffee-growing country! On average, about 5% of every un-sorted bag of coffee beans are peaberries.

The Sumatra Peaberry Arabica Coffee is known to be a novelty coffee with good reason. This beautiful coffee is a very clean coffee that offers a rustic earthy sweetness, with big hints of chocolate and caramel. With a medium to dark roast, there are also spicy notes of clove and cinnamon making it a great dessert coffee.

When you are in the mood for a low acid and overall rich full body, special coffee, try a cup of cute peaberry.

What is Direct Trade in Coffee?
Have you ever stopped to wonder where the coffee beans that end up in your cup of coffee came from? Do you know if your coffee supplier does? At Lavanta Coffee Roasters we sure do—because we participate in Direct Trade agreements. Read on to find out what this program is, how it works, and how it helps us make you a better cup of coffee!

What is Direct Trade?
Those who participate in the Direct Trade program know exactly where their coffee beans came from. While we might not know our farmers directly, the Direct Trade program serves as a monitoring and controlling body, imposition strict standards and checking for quality along each step that your coffee bean takes from the plant to your cup.

What Good is Direct Trade?
Direct trade is great for three things? The environment, the people who labor to grow the coffee, and the end consumers. Direct Trade ensures that harvests are more likely to be sustainable, ensuring the highest performance for the environment. The program pays farmers and laborers above the market price so they can afford to keep making these quality improvements. This results in a great cup of coffee from the best beans available.

How Does Lavanta do it?
We keep close relationships with our suppliers to ensure ongoing great quality of our coffee. We take it a step further than most and have built our own Direct Trade lines, working closely with the farmers, harvesters, and others involved in the coffee business. This helps us to offset some of the costs by eliminating the “middleman” who seeks to profit off of this step, and allows us better control of our supply line.
To find out more about our Direct Trade program, visit our website at https://lavantacoffee.com. For the best coffee in New Jersey, visit Lavanta!

Why Buy from Fair Trade Suppliers?
Those of us fortunate enough to live in well-off countries enjoy a minimum wage and protection for our employees. Unfortunately, in many of the places where coffee beans grow best, this is not the case, and workers, particularly farmers, are subject to poor working conditions just to receive pennies for their labor. We don’t think that’s fair, and neither does the Fair Trade Certification program. However, when you buy products that have been Fair Trade Certified, you can trust that you are doing the best for the farmers and for the world. Read on to find out why Lavanta Coffee Roasters in New Jersey is proud to be Fair Trade Certified.

Fair Wages
The key component of Fair Trade is ensuring that the trade partners receive a fair price for their products. This third-party certification protects both the suppliers and the buyers, ensuring a fair, consistent price. These fair wages go on to support the communities and local agriculture, ensuring that the business will survive for many years into the future.

Sustainability
If you ran a business and you weren’t being paid what you were worth, you would have to cut corners. Often, in the agriculture business, these corners involve the environment. Promote a healthy and sustainable grow by buying from Lavanta Coffee Roasters in NJ, where you can trust that our Fair Trade Certified coffees will meet your desires.

High Quality
Do you think that people who aren’t being treated well or paid well have the energy to give your coffee beans the attention they deserve? Not likely. When employees and suppliers are treated better, they can do a better job, such as making sure that the coffee beans are of the best quality. If you want the best coffee, you want to pay the people who make it what they are worth.
To find out more about how Lavanta Coffee Roasters in NJ stays committed to quality and sustainability, visit our certifications page at https://lavantacoffee.com/p/certfications.