Aerial view of Cape Kimberley — paddock and canopy at the edge of the Daintree

Origin tile · Cape Kimberley · Daintree, Far North Queensland

From banana country to four working systems.

The continuous record starts here — freehold we own and walk, where the Daintree River meets the Coral Sea. Formerly bananas; now cacao under canopy, native rainforest returning, silvopasture, and medicinal cropping. Same spine that opens to plant-out, stem, book, and Country.

The land, today

Four systems running

Bananas came off. Productive perennial trees and native canopy go in. Soil rebuilds. Year by year, paddock by paddock, the land remembers what it was before the plantation years. Four lots, four methodologies, one regional question answered honestly: what does the country want to grow next?

What's growing here

Four systems, not one

  • Silvopasture·Native timber (30 ha CF + 20 ha Lot 89)
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  • Agroforestry·Cacao (20 ha CF)
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  • Cropping·Turmeric
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  • Native Regeneration·70 ha restoration
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Cacao and durian where it makes sense. Native canopy where it asks for it. Pasture and timber where they fit. Cropping in the rows.

Where it sits

At the edge of the Daintree

Cape Kimberley shares its eastern edge with one of the oldest rainforests on Earth — Daintree country, returned to Eastern Kuku Yalanji custodianship in 2022. The land here doesn't end at our boundary; it joins something larger.

What it can hold

Slope, water, and where each system belongs

Not every hectare is flat or dry. The ridges are steep. The creeks are real and need their buffers. The productive systems go where the land is willing. Native regeneration takes the rest. The land tells us where; we listen.

Cape Kimberley is the proving ground. We work the land first, and tell its story honestly.

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