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Handcrafted Harvest Artisanal relishes, marmalades, salts, candles and more lovingly made in the South Burnett.

Soon, we'll be roasting our very own coffee at Handcrafted Harvest. And I cannot tell you how excited I am about this.Th...
19/10/2026

Soon, we'll be roasting our very own coffee at Handcrafted Harvest. And I cannot tell you how excited I am about this.

This whole process has taken considerably longer than we ever imagined. But good things take time, don't they?

The electricians have been, the plumbing is done, and we're now waiting on one final piece to be made and delivered. Once that's installed, we should finally be ready to go.

In the meantime, there's an awful lot happening behind the scenes.

Our coffee bags are arriving, along with food-grade storage buckets, packaging and all the little bits and pieces you don't realise you need until you decide to start roasting coffee. Our first bulk order of green beans is being finalised, and I've been spending an almost ridiculous amount of time researching coffee farms, growing conditions, origins and flavour profiles.

I have gone so far down the coffee rabbit hole that I'm not entirely sure I'll ever find my way out.

But there's a reason for all of it.

I want to create one really, really good everyday coffee.

Not something pretentious. Not a coffee that requires a lengthy explanation to appreciate. Just a beautiful, reliable cup of coffee that you genuinely look forward to drinking every morning.

I love coffee that's smooth, rich and chocolatey, with those lovely caramel notes. But I also want it to have some strength behind it. I can't stand a coffee that tastes like it needs an extra shot just to remind you there's coffee in the cup.

I want ours to be bold without being bitter. Strong without being overpowering. Rich, mellow and full of flavour.

And I want it to be wonderfully versatile. Something that tastes just as good made at home as it does through a commercial coffee machine. Because this will eventually be the coffee we serve at Whipbird, too.

So right now, I'm working on finding the right combination of beans to create that flavour. Then comes the really exciting part: experimenting with the roasting process until we get it just right.

And believe me, the second that roaster is ready, I'll have beans going into it.

I know that when you visit the store, it probably looks like not much has changed. There's still a big coffee roaster sitting quietly in the corner, waiting for its first proper run.

But behind the scenes, an enormous amount of thought, research and preparation is going into this little project.

We're not quite there yet.

But I think, very soon, we'll finally have a beautiful bag of our very own coffee to show for it.

And I cannot wait.

A little update on our little store.Restoration has slowly begun, and this week has been all about sanding, scraping and...
15/10/2026

A little update on our little store.

Restoration has slowly begun, and this week has been all about sanding, scraping and preparing the old girl for a fresh coat of paint.

There's something really wonderful about sanding back an old building. Every layer of paint reveals another little piece of its history. Different colours, different eras, different people who have cared for this place over the years. I love thinking about all the lives this building has lived before us.

For those who don't know, our little store is our production space. It's where we spend our Fridays labelling jars, preparing preserves and relishes, packing up all sorts of things from the farm and generally making a lovely big mess. Soon, it'll also be home to our coffee roasting, which we're very excited about.

It's a little bit of a shop, a little bit of a workshop, and a place for all the things we love making.

At the moment, Fridays are our big day here. We open the doors from 9am to 4pm, and you're always welcome to pop in, have a wander, see what we're working on or just say hello.

I can't wait to see her all painted up. ❤️

Today is a very exciting day — restoration of the front of our little store has begun. ❤️I woke up this morning, jumped ...
06/10/2026

Today is a very exciting day — restoration of the front of our little store has begun. ❤️

I woke up this morning, jumped out of bed and announced, “Painting day!” I’ve been so excited for this part.

This building has such beautiful old architecture. I love the two big windows either side, the gorgeous old textured glass in the doors, the little details, and the symmetry of that sweet little doorway sitting right in the middle. There’s just something about old buildings like this that you can’t recreate. It’s one of the things that made me fall in love with the shop in the first place.

It feels really special to be giving this building a little bit of love. Not changing what makes it beautiful, but letting all of that character shine through again. I want anyone who drives past to be able to tell that this little store is loved, looked after and very special to us.

Our friend Tim from GQ Painting is here making it happen. Thank you, Tim, for all the care and effort you’re putting into our little store.

I’ll keep you all updated over the next few days as the transformation happens. I cannot wait to show you how she comes together.

So, for the next few mornings, I suspect I’ll be jumping out of bed with the same announcement…

“PAINTING DAY!” 😂❤️

02/10/2026

Another Friday at Handcrafted Harvest

Mum and I spent the morning labelling jars, wrapping soap, pouring candles and generally making a mess of the place.

But the thing I’m most excited about is Summer Memories. I wanted to make a mozzie-repelling candle that didn’t smell like a mozzie-repelling candle 😂 Something that smelled like childhood holidays at the beach instead. Sea salt, warm air, herbs and just a little citronella.

I think we got it.

We even made tiny little wax samples to tuck into the letters at Whipbird this weekend, because describing a smell is fairly useless. You really just need to smell it.

Anyway. A very nice Friday spent making things. ❤️

I think I’ve done it.I wanted to make a candle that helped repel mosquitoes, but that you’d actually want burning becaus...
30/09/2026

I think I’ve done it.

I wanted to make a candle that helped repel mosquitoes, but that you’d actually want burning because it smells absolutely divine.

And the smell I kept coming back to was childhood holidays at the coast.

I think a lot of us who grew up out here know that feeling. Summer holidays, warm air, salty skin, the smell of the ocean — and that little whisper of citronella somewhere in the background that somehow just smells like summer.

So I started playing with sea salt, citronella, eucalyptus and rosemary, trying to capture that feeling without making something that smells like… well, mosquito repellent 😂

And I think I’ve got it.

I’ve called it Summer Memories.

I’m only making a small test batch to start with, just to see what you all think. But I’m a little bit in love with it already.

I have a feeling this one will be burning at our place all summer long.

09/09/2026

A place where we make things from what we grow, gather and find around us, and share some of the things we make and use in our own everyday lives.

Every week is a little bit like show and tell when Mum comes into the store.She always arrives with something she’s been...
05/09/2026

Every week is a little bit like show and tell when Mum comes into the store.

She always arrives with something she’s been making. Lately, it’s been these rustic paper clay vessels. She also makes hand-stitched cards, paintings and all sorts of little things, usually inspired by flowers, leaves and whatever she happens to find around her.

A little while ago we were visiting my brother in Brisbane when Mum spotted some cardboard packaging he was about to throw away.

“You’re not going to throw that out, are you?”

We all laughed.

“That is some good-looking cardboard.”

So, naturally, the cardboard came all the way home from Brisbane.

And the vessel in this photo is what became of it.

I think that sums up Mum’s art quite nicely. She sees something beautiful in the things the rest of us might walk straight past.

You can find a little collection of Mum’s work here in the store, and she also has her own artist display at Whipbird. 🤎

Mum walked up to me in the shop today with something cupped in her hands and a little cheeky grin on her face.“I bought ...
04/09/2026

Mum walked up to me in the shop today with something cupped in her hands and a little cheeky grin on her face.

“I bought something for the display.”

She opened her hands and there were three little cumquats, still on their branch with their leaves.

And we just stood there admiring them.
The colour of them. The leaves. How ridiculously beautiful three tiny pieces of fruit could be sitting on an old wooden table amongst the pottery and jars.

And I thought afterwards, that’s really the whole story of Handcrafted Harvest.

It’s noticing these things.

A handful of fruit from a tree. Eggs collected in the morning. Something flowering in the garden. A beautiful piece of clay. A glut of something that needs preserving.

And instead of rushing past it, stopping for a minute and thinking, look how beautiful this is.

Then making something with it. Putting it on the table. Sharing it with somebody else.

I think that’s all I’ve ever wanted Handcrafted Harvest to be. A little place for appreciating the good things we grow, make and gather — and sharing them.

16/08/2026

When I got home, Devon said, “You smell like candles.”

Probably because I spent the afternoon pouring them. 😂

One of my favourite things to make — and I’m a little bit in love with the candles we’ve created. Simple, beautiful, and they smell so good.

When my family was all home recently, Mum started collecting everyone's used tea bags.Not one or two.Every single one.Th...
26/07/2026

When my family was all home recently, Mum started collecting everyone's used tea bags.

Not one or two.

Every single one.

They piled up beside the sink until there was a little mountain of them.

Naturally, I started teasing her.

"Mum... what on earth are you keeping all those tea bags for?"

She just smiled and kept collecting them.

A few weeks later, she walked into the store carrying a stack of handmade cards.

The tea bags had become the background. She'd stitched them by hand, added pressed flowers from the garden, and somehow turned something I'd laughed at into something genuinely beautiful.

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39 Alexander Street
Wooroolin, QLD
4610

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Friday 5pm - 10pm
Saturday 7am - 10pm
Sunday 7am - 4pm

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