Melbourne ups the ante of city farming with an urban coffee plantation

Coffee and the cafes that sell it are ubiquitous in the world's major cities - but how about a jungle of coffee trees on the edge of a central business district? That's what the design firm HASSELL has brought to the Australian city of Melbourne in partnership with the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. A total of 125 coffee trees transformed the Red Stairs, a popular public amphitheatre on the banks of Melbourne's River Yarra, into a terraced coffee farm.