Gateway: Cairns Crop to Cup

This Gateway Teacher Professional Development event is designed to help give educators a more immersive experience behind our exciting coffee industry, passion and culture.  This event will take you to coffee plantations, a dairy farm in the tablelands and give you the background between the growing processes of coffee beans through to roasting techniques to cup.

The tour will be run by Cairns Food and Wine Tours, who are sure to be able to use their connections and experience in hosting an amazingly fun and informative event.  The event will give you an opportunity to learn from some of the region’s top producers but also sample some excellent coffee and enjoy a well-deserved lunch.

Itinerary:

• 8.15am – Coffee and day expectations
• 8.30am – Pickup from Blackbird warehouse
• 9.30am – Jacques Coffee plantation
• 11.30am – Gallo Dairy
• 2.00pm – Skybury Coffee
• 5.00pm – Blackbird Warehouse dropoff

What to expect:

Jacques Coffee plantation which boasts 85000 coffee trees and home to the world’s first harvester.  Here you will meet with the Jacques family, watch an informative video, tour the plantation and sample some of this proudly Australian coffee.

Gallo Dairy: What is coffee without milk?  Here you will be greeted with a presentation from the Gallo family regarding the operation of the farm, complimented with a delicious lunch.  As an added bonus you will also do some cheese and chocolate tasting.

Skybury Coffee: After an introductory presentation with a deep dive into their approach to farming and sustainability, you will head out onto the farm to observe their approach in a practice.

Blackbird Warehouse:  Before boarding the bus, we will have a quick coffee and a run down on what you can expect and what you should look out for.  We will then meet back at Blackbird where you can either have your final cup of coffee or head home at your leisure.

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This event has a minimum number of attendees.  You will be refunded if this is not reached.

Please note the cost listed is for gateway schools only.  The cost for non-gateway schools is $208.99 (inc. booking fee & GST).