Hello, I’ve been working away at reorganising parts of the Fairy Wren Cottage website and came across a post I had written 17th March 2022. In the post was a quote I read on Brene Brown’s website and the quote has continued to inspire me to move forward and motivated me to keep sharing […]

  Quinces are available for sale during the harvesting season of March through to late April. We deliberately hand pick what is actually ripe during those weeks instead of marking the calendar & picking everything at once that may not be quite ready. It is such a slow process growing this fruit from seeing it […]

  Outside, the sweet pea tendrils are crisp and turning the colour of wheat, seed pods forming, the last flower popping up here or there, as if by some miracle. Inside, in front of the fan, dogs asleep in the cool, I am planning my sweet pea rows, seed planted late September to early October […]

  Hello, I’m starting a new Sweet Pea Q & A, answering questions I’m asked on Instagram and via email. This way answers don’t get lost in the comment section and by sharing the answers it may help you too! After all the world needs more sweet peas and if I can contribute to that […]

  The Quince Orchard is home to Myrtle, Olive Pink, Ferdinand and Loveheart the Fawn and White Indian Runner ducks. It is of the utmost importance to us to increase this rare duck breeds numbers in Tasmania. Although, saying this I have not had much luck, they don’t lay many eggs, fertility and hatch rate […]

  The 2020 Quince Harvest. The 2020 harvest (late March/April/May) was called Quince Kindness. With everything going on in the world, Michael, Lil and I decided to give away as many quinces as we could and only sell to existing customers in the hospitality industry who buy our quinces and turn them into a product […]

  The ducks are funny poppets, just like us humans the ducks have very different personalities. You may have read a previous newsletter about Olive Pink, now she is definitely one of life’s characters. Here are some details about this little flock who call Fairy Wren Cottage home. Breed: Fawn and White Indian Runner Ducks. […]

  Springtime in the Quince Orchard, the Fairy Wrens & Silvereyes flit from branch to branch, the Grey Shrike Thrush is heard singing it’s beautiful song from the tops of the trees and you can smell the Quince blossom. The quince flower petals are the softest pink and the creamiest white, to some they look […]

  The Quince Orchard here at Fairy Wren Cottage is organic, bee friendly & a joy to be in! It is a young orchard planted by Michael, Liliana and myself in the Winter of 2014. The trees were 1,2 and 3 years old at the time. When the quince trees are in full blossom and […]