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"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