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ABOUT Buderim
Buderim (26°41′S 153°04′E) is a mountain town in the Sunshine Coast,
Queensland, Australia about an hour's drive north of Brisbane. The mountain
itself is an extinct volcano.
Buderim was seen as a resource for timbergetters, huge stands of Beech and
cedar grew across the mountain. Some trees were so large in fact, they were
wasted due to the lack of transport to carry them down to the river for
despatch to Brisbane. Once cleared, the plateau was used for farming, the
rich red volcanic soil found on Buderim, made the area particularly suited
to growing almost everything from bananas to small crops.The most notable
crops were Coffee and in the early 1900s ginger made Buderim famous. Burnett
won awards for quality of coffee at shows in London in the late 1800s.
In the middle of the 1900s the largest ginger processing facility in the
southern hemisphere was built, and operated until the factory closed and
operations were moved closer to other ginger growing areas near Yandina.
Many farmers left the land to get jobs, as the value of their produce was
eroded, this was very much the fate of the Lindsay Family, who farmed
massive orchards around the road which now bears their name. The value of
Buderim as real estate, pressured many others out of the rural lifestyle.
Housing development increased in and around Buderim mountain, thanks to the
huge leap in real estate values and much land is now being developed that
was once deemed too expensive to engineer housing estates. Thanks to this
development, all farming and much of the secondary growth rainforest on the
escarpment has disappeared.
Buderim does contain one of the most significant heritage relics of the
early days in the form of Pioneer Cottage, restored and cared for by the
"Buderim Historical Society". |
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