DIRECT-TRADE COFFEE · NEW YORK

Every bag carries a lot code.
Type it in and see every hand it passed through.

Harvest, mill, export, roast, delivery — and exactly what the farm was paid.

14/14 rows of lot ET-0426 carry a document reference.

Shipping nowET-0426 · 12 oz

The finished bag with its trace card, lot code facing the camera.

Yirgacheffe, Gedeo Zone, Ethiopia. Roasted in Brooklyn on 5 August, delivered by hand three days later.

The washing station and drying beds the Ethiopian lot came from.

The washing station, Gedeo Zone

The pilot roast in progress, with the roaster or their hands in frame if they agree.

The contract roast, Brooklyn

The first delivery handoff, with the bag and the recipient’s hand in frame.

The Brooklyn round, Saturday morning

Two receipts for the same coffee

One of them names the farm

A café receipt proves what you paid. It does not say what the farm got, because nobody along the way is required to write that down. So we wrote it down.

A café, New York

one latte · $5.50

AUDIT

Green coffee in the cup≈ 21 g

World-market value≈ US$0.13

ICO composite, July 2026. This is a market price, not a farmer payment.

Paid to the farmnot disclosed

What the receipt provesthe price

This receipt does not include a farm payment. See the source and calculation

Ground Up

lot ET-0426 · 12 oz

every line has a reference

AUDIT

Green coffee at FOB$5.20

Freight, duty and import entry$1.60

Roasting and QC$3.90

Bag, card, printing$1.30

Delivery round$2.10

Set aside for the next origin visit$1.90

Paid to the farm$3.50

The cherry payment itemised on export invoice FOB-ET-0426. It is a line inside the FOB price, not the individual farm gate.

Bag price$16.00

Verified record· ET-0426

Checksum · ET-0426

22% of the bag price reached the producer. Open every line at /trace/ET-0426.

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From the log

The last three things that actually happened

Whole log

Aug 15, 2026build

ET-0426 and CO-0311 closed — every handover and every cost line now carries a document reference

Coffee being poured from the thermos into a cup during the pilot handoff.

Aug 15, 2026field

Second round walked in Williamsburg with CO-0311 — six households, thermos on the doorstep

The roasted beans on a kitchen scale, the number readable.

Aug 12, 2026field

Pilot GU-0001 roasted: 6.60 lb green in, 5.55 lb out, weighed on the roastery scale

Seven handovers

What we record for one bag

For each handover we keep who held the coffee, its weight and the document that proves it. The reference is printed next to the row so you can ask us for the paper.