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 […]

  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 […]

  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 […]

Hello! We’re in the middle of a hot couple of days but gosh, other than these hot couple of days it does feel like the gentlest Autumn whispers are starting to thread there ways through our days. Harvests are two to three weeks earlier than usual. The nights are a little cooler, the morning a […]

In order to add more trees to the Food Hedge we gave two quince trees major haircuts. In usual Jude and Michael tree pruning fashion I pointed to one tree branch, Michael thought it was another, and those trees are now pruned way beyond what my initial plans were. We’ll wait and see what happens, […]

  Hello! How are you? We have been slowly but surely making some changes in our Quince Orchard. It took a lot of courage, lots of sleepless nights and worry if I was making the right decision but after ten years of only harvesting a handful of quinces it was time to say goodbye to […]

I was in our Quince Orchard late yesterday afternoon, checking on the quinces. They are still weeks off from being ripe. We grow several varieties, I’ve written about them for you HERE. The biggest mistake I see at the moment is people picking quinces too soon (like the quince in the above photo) and selling […]