Buderim 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.

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.

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