Wet Tropics · On a farm
The mill took one crop.
The shed takes many.
Follow one farm out of Douglas Shire, through our shed, and out to the world.
Then
One crop. One mill. One buyer.
Farms across Douglas Shire sent their cane to Mossman Mill. The mill sold the sugar.
One farm, 25 years
Something pays from the first year. More joins as the trees grow up.
Day 1
1 of 12 incomes paying
Cattle:Grazing between young timber beltsSold as nowBeef
- Cattle on pasture strips
- Turmeric, ginger & cassava beds
- Noni leaf tea & native ginger
- Noni fruit (year-round)
- Shared shed processing margin
- Shared equipment & crew hire
- Davidson plum, finger lime & native nut
- Single-origin cacao beans & nibs
- Cold-pressed Tamanu & candlenut oil
- Durian & mangosteen top storey
- Hardwood poles (Yr 12) & sawlogs (Yr 20+)
- Soil carbon & Nature Repair credits
Arriving nowThe nursery’s trees go in. The buyer is already agreed.
Drop a bad year
Illustrative. Which incomes a bad year hits is a sketch, not a forecast.
What stays yours
The land
In your name.
The farming
Your crew, your calls.
The record
Passed to whoever farms it next.
Wet Tropics
Where else this can be pointedWorked out here, with Douglas Shire farms.
Acknowledgement of Country
The ClimateForce acknowledges the Eastern Kuku Yalanji peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the Land and Sea country on which we operate. Sovereignty was never ceded.