We have trouble classifying Australia in the geography of coffee. A continent, a country, an island, and a small sliver of terrain capable of coffee farming. It’s hard to place it in the geography of coffee origins and locate it compared to other places capable of coffee production. Geography isn’t the biggest issue. It’s the economics of “home-grown” Aussie coffee, at least on a commercial scale.
Coffee is now farmed from Nimbin and Lismore, in New South Wales, to Cape York in far north Queensland, where the large Skybury plantation is located. Skybury and the other larger plantations, near Mareeba on the Atherton Tablelands, are fully mechanized, but there are smaller farms where traditional hand cultivation is used.
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