Skybury Coffee Bar

4 best food stops when on a road trip through Atherton Tablelands - SilverKris

"This 360‑acre plantation in Mareeba grows coffee and experimental fruit alongside each other, combining traditional farming with scientific rigour to produce premium, shade‑grown beans and superior papaya. The farm clones a sweet South African papaya variety and interplants papaya with coffee to provide protective shade, a method that helped its first premium green beans command around S$42 a kilo in Europe for their freshness, acidity and depth of flavour. A laboratory on site supports crop development, and the operation — now Australia’s largest green coffee exporter — supplies beans served in cafés from Paris to Tokyo and New York; visitors can enjoy a cup at the on‑site café that overlooks sweeping plantation views." - Catherine Best