EXHIBIT 24                        
                              
                          POWER OF ATTORNEY


     KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each director and officer whose
signature appears below constitutes and appoints Robert P. Stiller and 
Robert D. Britt, and each of them, his or her true and lawful 
attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power to each of them to act without
the other and with full power of substitution and re-substitution, to
sign, individually, in the name on behalf of the undersigned in any and all
capacities stated below, the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Green Mountain
Coffee, Inc. for the fiscal year ended September 27, 1997 and any and all
amendments thereto, which amendments may make such changes in such Form
10-K as any such attorney-in-fact may deem appropriate, and to file the
same with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith
with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting to such 
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to
do all such other acts and execute all such other documents as they, or any
of them, may deem necessary or desirable in connection with the foregoing,
as fully as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying
and confirming all that such attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them,
may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.



Signature                   Title                            Date
- ---------                   -----                            ----
                                                       
                            Chairman of the Board of                    
- -------------------------   Directors, President and                     
Robert P. Stiller           Chief Executive Officer          
                            (Principal Executive Officer)        
                                                      
      
                            Chief Financial Officer, 
- -------------------------   Treasurer, Secretary and           
Robert D. Britt             Director (Principal              
                            Financial and Accounting Officer

/s/ Stephen J. Sabol
- -------------------------
Stephen J. Sabol            Director                         December 23, 1997

                                               
/s/ Jonathan C. Wettstein     
- -------------------------
Jonathan C. Wettstein       Director                         December 23, 1997

                                               
/s/ William D. Davis
- -------------------------
William D. Davis            Director                         December 23, 1997


/s/ Jules A. del Vecchio
- -------------------------
Jules A. del Vecchio        Director                         December 23, 1997


/s/ David E. Moran
- -------------------------
David E. Moran              Director                         December 23, 1997


/s/ Ian W. Murray
- -------------------------
Ian W. Murray               Director                         December 23, 1997