Yes, it sure is my friend! Your coffee beans were actually once a little red fruit that went through many stages to become the aromatic coffee bean you buy from your local coffee shop. Most good coffee will go through similar processes.
It starts with wet processing to remove the outer skin of the fruit and the inner parchment skin. The pulp is fermented away, and then the inner seed is dried out. The result is the green coffee bean that is often shipped out and housed all over the world. Think of the green coffee beans much like any other bag of dry beans you might purchase from your local grocery store.
Your green coffee bean is then bought by local coffee shops and providers, and either sold green or sold pre-roasted to consumers. Most often the coffee bean is sold already roasted by the provider, as that is the quickest way to a pot of fresh coffee for most consumers. Many don’t have the time or the inclination to roast their own coffee beans and instead prefer to purchase gourmet coffee ready to go.
However, some consumers DO enjoy roasting their own coffee beans, and will prefer to purchase them green from their providers to ensure maximum freshness, aroma, and flavor once they are roasted and ready to be brewed. Also many hobbyist coffee lovers enjoy roasting their own beans just as a novelty gift to give to friends and family, and to test different roasting methods and adjust their coffee to their own tastes.
Just like a tomato is often mistaken for a vegetable, but is in fact a fruit, coffee isn’t in actuality a bean, despite its current moniker as ‘coffee bean’. Despite the very involved process we just discussed, it did in fact start out as a fruit! Who knew?