There's something quietly satisfying about sourcing your green beans from a proper green beanery — a place where the focus is on raw, unroasted coffee and the people who know it best. But not all green beaneries are equal. Most stock imported beans from Ethiopia, Colombia, or Brazil, roasted locally and sold as “Australian coffee.” If you’ve been looking for something genuinely different — beans actually grown in Australian soil, on a working family farm, by people who’ve been doing this for nearly a century — you’ve found the right place.
What is a green beanery — and why does origin matter?
A green beanery is simply a supplier of raw, unroasted green coffee beans — the starting point for every roast, whether you’re spinning up a 1kg drum at home or sourcing for a specialty micro-roastery. The green bean is where flavour potential lives. Roasting unlocks it, but it can’t manufacture what isn’t already there.
Here’s the thing worth knowing before you buy: the vast majority of green coffee available in Australia is imported. The beans were grown overseas, shipped here, and roasted locally. That’s perfectly fine coffee — but it’s not Australian-grown coffee. Those are two very different things, and the distinction matters if provenance and traceability are important to you.
Jack Murat Coffee is one of the only green beaneries in the country where the beans start and end their journey in Australia. Grown on our family farm in Mareeba, Far North Queensland, and sold direct — what you put in your roaster is as traceable as coffee gets.
Shop our green beans here.
Mareeba-grown Arabica: what makes Far North Queensland coffee special
Our farm sits at 600 metres altitude outside Mareeba, Far North Queensland, at 17 degrees south latitude — growing conditions that Arabica genuinely loves. The elevation slows the cherry’s development, building complexity and density in the bean. The latitude keeps us comfortably within the tropical belt where coffee thrives, but far enough south that we avoid some of the disease pressures that plague farms closer to the equator.
The soils here are volcanic. Rich, well-drained, and naturally suited to growing clean, healthy coffee. We don’t use pesticides — the land and its conditions don’t require them. The Murat family has had roots in Mareeba since 1929, when Jack’s grandfather emigrated and settled in Far North Queensland. The farm itself is a more recent chapter in that story, built on a long connection to this country and this community. Across 95 hectares, we grow Red and Yellow Catuai Arabica — a variety selected for its quality and its suitability to our conditions. This isn’t a boutique vanity project or a lifestyle farm. It’s a serious, working agricultural operation that happens to produce some of Australia’s finest specialty green coffee.
For a home roaster or small-batch buyer, what that means in practical terms is this: dense, well-formed green beans with genuine flavour potential, traceable to a single farm, a single family, and a specific patch of Queensland earth.
Two green beans, two stories: washed vs honey process
One of the more interesting things about sourcing from a single Australian coffee farm is that you can explore how post-harvest processing shapes flavour — without changing anything else. Same farm. Same altitude. Same variety. Same family. What changes is what happens to the cherry after it’s picked.
Green bean washed — Our classic lot. In washed process coffee, the fruit is removed from the bean before drying. The result is a cleaner cup profile: brighter acidity, clarity in the flavour notes, and a more direct expression of the bean’s character. If you want to understand what Mareeba Arabica tastes like at its most transparent, start here.
Green bean honey — Our newer offering, and one we’re genuinely proud of. In honey process coffee, a layer of mucilage (the sticky fruit flesh) is left on the bean during drying. This adds sweetness, body, and a rounder complexity to the final cup. For home roasters who enjoy a little more texture and depth, it’s a compelling alternative — and a fascinating comparison when roasted alongside the Washed lot.
Both products are available directly on our green bean product page. If you’re just getting into home roasting coffee, the Washed is a reliable, expressive starting point. If you’ve been at it a while and want to experiment, try both and see what your roast reveals.
Order direct from the farm — Australian green beans delivered to your door
Buying from a farm-direct green beanery means no middleman, no mystery in the supply chain, and no guessing about harvest date or handling. When you order Jack Murat green beans, they come from us — grown in Queensland, dispatched from the source.
We sell online, direct to home roasters, micro-roasters, specialty cafés, and anyone curious enough to want to know exactly where their coffee came from. The freshness advantage of buying from the grower is real: you know the provenance, the process, and the people behind it. If you want to go further, our farm tours at Mareeba give you the full picture — from tree to cherry to green bean.
And if you want to taste it before you roast it, our own Jack’s Café in North Bondi, Sydney, serves coffee grown on this farm. Same beans, same family, same story.
Australian-grown green coffee is rare, and buying direct from the grower means you know exactly what you’re putting in your drum. Jack Murat is one of very few places where that’s genuinely possible.
Interested in visiting and seeing for yourself - you can book a farm tour here.
