5 charming characters you should meet in Bundaberg North Burnett

FROM the region which delivers world-renowned sugar from our superior sugar cane, it's little surprise we also make a mean coffee to go with that sugar. Here's our 6 top picks for your next espresso hit.

A fixture in the Bundaberg culinary community, never far from a degustation, always eager to share his expertise and passionately waving the 'eat local' flag, Anthony Rehbein, recognisable as the face of Winterfeast 2018, runs Bunda Ginga and One Little Farm with his with wife Kate in the coastal regions of Bundaberg. Their amazing family-grown produce is stocked by all the best of Bundaberg's stores and cafes. The Rehbein's hand harvest, hand pack and hand deliver ginger, turmeric, eggplant, tomatoes, cucumbers, melons and micro herbs to the café and market doors daily ensuring optimum freshness, premium quality and the charming touch that can only be given by a Bundaberg farmer.

Building a legacy takes much more than just hard work and grit, it takes team, it takes a family. Today Macadamias Australia is a grower and worldwide exporter of macadamias, sourced from their expansive orchard comprising 2500 acres. In 1958 Ron and Marion Steinhardt saw an opportunity and purchased their first farm, an unworked piece of bushland. Early days saw the growing of a variety of crops from peanut and corn to tobacco and sugar cane, and later to tomatoes and zucchinis before eventually finding their footing in macadamias. Nowadays the farm sits under the watchful eye of their children, Janelle, Trevor, Kevin and their partners to carry on the legacy.

Clint Luke is a local builder and a family man with an unusual hobby – beekeeping. What started out as a way to keep up with the family demand for honey has now evolved into a small, successful family business known as Bundy Honey. Swept up in the swarm Clint went from one backyard hive to multiple hives at multiple sites in a few short years with more expansions on the way. With his passion to keep growing and learning about bees, the hive numbers grew continually, and the family could not consume the amount of honey being produced so when the opportunity arose to service a retired beekeeper's customers Clint jumped on it.