Blog Posts - Zentveld's Coffee Plantation and Roastery

How To Adjust Your Coffee Grind & Why It Is Important?

There exists a common belief that a barista should never touch the grinder. This is false.

From the Seed to the Cup – New Cover Crop

Spring is here and it’s harvest time at Zentveld’s. The coffee trees are loaded with ripened red fruit, ready for harvest.

ABC News Australian Coffee Harvest 2021

ABC Rural Reporter, Kim Honan interviews Rebecca Zentveld from Zentveld’s Coffee Farm & Roastery on the Spring Harvest 2021.

Zentveld’s Featured In MICE Magazine

Practically organic, Australian coffee thrives in our cooler subtropical conditions, free of the pests and diseases that require nasty sprays in most coffee growing nations.

Spring Harvest 2021

Spring is here and it’s harvest time at Zentveld’s. The coffee trees are loaded with ripened red fruit, ready for harvest.

Zentvelds Featured On SBS

The local coffee farming industry is thriving. In fact, from the Byron Hinterland to the Atherton Tablelands, it’s bean an effort to keep up with demand.

Zentveld’s Featured In Farming Together

Rebecca Zentveld provides insight to the Farming Together audience on her cover crop research project – looking promising for coffee growers.

AeroPress – The Grind Experiment

Here our Chief Barista and Rebecca Zentveld talk about using your AeroPress to make a great coffee and getting the grind right.

Cool Climate, Sweet Coffee

Cool winters bring natural sweetness to our coffee. How is that so? Coffee is grown in the tropics.

Compost & Microbial Life

Bec loves making compost. An experienced ‘home waste’ composter – it’s quite a different thing to scale up.

Cover Crop Plantings

With Winter slowing down the growth of summer grasses (eg the rampant kikuyu) – it gives us a chance to plant some winter cover crops.

Autumn Farm News – Native Bees

Native bees on the farm! We have the perfect habitat and food zone for native bees! 30 native bee boxes are in our rainforest.

How To Backflush Your Coffee Machine

There’s nothing worse than odd tasting coffee, and that’s exactly what build-up on your espresso machine does to great tasting coffee!!

4 Reasons Why You Should Use Espresso Machine Cleaner

Many people start their day with a caffeine hit (We can definitely relate). If you use an espresso machine at home.

Australian coffee growers get innovative to encourage consumers to drink local

Enter any cafe and you’ll likely find a selection of beans from Papua New Guinea, Brazil and Colombia, the biggest suppliers of the market.

January Farm News 2021

Summer action on the farm. Delight in the flowers, watch the bees, smell the cow poo freshly delivered.

Watch Now! Zentveld’s Featured On Escape From The City (51 Min 25 Sec)

Watch now! Zentveld’s featured on Escape from the City on ABC iview Byron Bay Episode.

Film Crews and Radio Live at Zendveld’s

Back to back coverage on our coffee farm on the 4th and 5th Nov.2020. ABC Landline had planned for 2 years.

Coffee Farm Waste Is Food For The Soil

We transform all our on-farm processing waste back into the land. Crop trimmings, harvest fruit skins, hulled parchment, roaster sweepings, spent coffee.