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Located at 24 Merchants Row in Middlebury Chamber member little seed COFFEE ROASTERS set out to roast high-quality, flavor-forward coffee for the Addison County area and beyond. Now in its fourth month of business, co-roasters and owners Maggie Keith Gerakos and Anthony Gerakos have begun rolling out their wholesale program. Any business that sells coffee and is looking to serve specialty coffee from a locally owned and operated roaster would make a great partnership consideration. In addition to working together with local businesses on a coffee program that works best for them, little seed is also able to source green coffee for a business’ specific needs, provide guidance on brewing equipment and methods, as well as offering design consultations (both space planning and branding) for new and existing cafes. If you’re interested in having a conversation or learning more about partnering with little seed, contact Maggie and Anthony at wholesale@littleseed.coffee or visit the wholesale section on their site www.littleseed.coffee/wholesale to submit an inquiry.


About little seed COFFEE ROASTERS: little seed COFFEE ROASTERS is a welcoming and present approach to specialty coffee. Coffee culture, and the spaces where it is consumed, should provide an enjoyable respite in our community. An inclusive, and above-all, joyful coffee-drinking experience is key to who we are. We are proud to keep these values at the heart of all we do, in our shop, in our customers’ homes, and in our partners’ businesses. We meticulously select and roast our coffees to bring out the best in each offering. Each roast is meant to be approachable - to the most experienced coffee drinker to the novice who wants to expand their palette. We firmly believe that complex, eyeopening, flavor-forward coffee that is ethicallysourced, thoughtfully roasted, and acts as a vehicle for change should be enjoyed by all. At the end of the day, we hope our coffee brings you joy and keeps you going - and that you feel good about choosing us, too. Additionally, through our ‘you sip, we give’ initiative, little seed COFFEE ROASTERS donates 5% of our profits to non-profit organizations that improve our coffee producers’ communities, with a focus on children’s causes, education, and women’s empowerment
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We are fortunate to have the opportunity to roast and share the coffee that is skillfully grown and nurtured many miles from our Vermont home base. This quarter, our ‘you sip, we give’ initiative supports the Chicuchas Wasi School for Gils in Cusco, Peru, the community from where our Arturo Altamirano offering is sourced. Our commitment to supporting the communities of our coffee farmers includes ensuring we only purchase our green coffee from buyers who are committed to paying better-than the typical fair trade wages. This is a non-negotiable cornerstone of our ethos. We also feel strongly about supporting causes close to home whenever possible through financial and product donations.


Maggie and Anthony Gerakos
About the roasters: After pursuing careers in non-profit development and architecture, respectively, Maggie and Anthony recognized their desire to turn their two year long passion project of roasting coffee for themselves, co-workers, family, and friends, into a full-time effort. They left Brooklyn, NY in July 2021 to begin setting up shop in Middlebury. The move to Vermont felt inevitable - from years of skipping out of the city during long weekends to enjoy a few days in the green mountains, to getting married in Waitsfield, it wasn’t an ‘if’ but a ‘when’ . Living and working through the height of the pandemic in NYC helped to speed up the progression. The two bring unique perspectives to roasting coffee, how it is enjoyed, and how thoughtfulness and intentionality is key - from seed to cup, from farmer to consumer.
