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Gateway: Cairns Crop to Cup

Gateway: Cairns Crop to Cup
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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 able to use their connections and experience in hosting an immersive, 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 expectations8:30am - Pickup from Blackbird warehouse9:30am - Jacques Coffee plantation11:30am - Gallo Dairy 2pm - Skybury Coffee5pm - Blackbird Warehouse dropoffWhat to expect:Jaques Coffee plantation which boasts 85000 coffee trees and home to the world’s first harvester. Here you will meet with the Jaques 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 see 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 leasure.We’d love you to join our page on Facebook, so we can keep you up-to-date with our full program. Just jump on over to https://www.facebook.com/gatewayschoolsnetwork/ and give us the big thumbs up.This event has a minimum number of attendees you will be refunded if this is not reached.

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205 Newell Street, Bungalow, QLD 4870
205 Newell St, Bungalow, 4870, QLD, AU
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