Australian grown coffee for Australians

Jaques coffee from Queensland (Photo: Julie May)

Australia is one of the few regions in the world free of the most serious coffee diseases, coffee berry borer disease and coffee leaf rust. Thus, noxious pesticides are not used on Australian coffee, enabling the farmers to use natural production systems with some producing organic coffee.

Current production of Australian coffee occurs between northern Queensland and as far south as Coffs Harbour in New South Wales. Australia has around 600,000 coffee trees, growing on 200 hectares with potential production of 300 tonnes. At this time, production of Australian coffee is not enough to keep up supplies to the big Australia-wide supermarkets. In addition, the Australian coffee growers and roasters find it difficult to compete with imported coffee.

A list of some of the Australian grown coffee available for mail order:
- NQ Gold Coffee, Qld: https://nqgoldcoffee.com.au/.
- Mackellar Range Coffee, NSW: http://mackellarcoffee.com.au/
- Jaques Coffee, Qld: https://www.jaquescoffee.com.au/
- Mountain Top Coffee, NSW: http://www.mountaintopcoffee.com.au/
- Ewingsdale Coffee, NSW: http://www.ewingsdalecoffee.com.au/coffee
- Skybury, Qld: http://www.skybury.com.au/skybury-cafeandroastery/coffee-range
- Zentveld’s, NSW: https://shop.zentvelds.com.au/
- Mount Mee Coffee, Qld: http://www.mountmeecoffee.com.au/
- Bun Coffee, NSW: (250g $14 - also available at David Jones) http://www.buncoffee.com.au/

References:
Australian Grown: http://www.midcoast.com.au/~keno/Coffee/Homegrown.html
Australian Speciality Grown Coffee: https://australianspecialtycoffee.com.au/whats-future-australian-subtropical-coffee/
Search for a cup of Australian coffee…: http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2015-07-08/search-for-a-good-cup-of-australian-coffee-grinding-away/6603076