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Recipes, Guides & Blog

Planting guides, native plant collections, kitchen recipes from the Gardens Café and stories from the team at Fairhill.

Name the New Goat Kids: Ten Names, Ten Family Memberships to Win
4 September 2026

Name the New Goat Kids: Ten Names, Ten Family Memberships to Win

Ten Miniature Pygmy goat kids have arrived at Fairhill and every one of them needs a name. Pick a favourite or suggest your own, and you could win one of ten Fairhill Family Memberships.

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New Arrivals: Day-Old Chicks, Including Two Rare Sommerlads
27 August 2026

New Arrivals: Day-Old Chicks, Including Two Rare Sommerlads

A fresh brood of day-old chicks has arrived at Fairhill, including two of the rare Australian Sommerlad heritage breed. Plus our chickens for sale on the Sunshine Coast.

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Come and Meet the Most Famous Baby Goats on the Sunshine Coast
14 August 2026

Come and Meet the Most Famous Baby Goats on the Sunshine Coast

Fairhill's baby goat reel has passed 300,000 views. Here's where to meet all the baby goats on the Sunshine Coast, with daily 12.30pm bottle feeding in the Kids' Barn.

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Plants for Bees, Butterflies and Birds: A Sunshine Coast Pollinator Garden Guide
14 August 2026

Plants for Bees, Butterflies and Birds: A Sunshine Coast Pollinator Garden Guide

For World Honey Bee Day: the Australian natives that feed honey bees, native bees, butterflies and birds all year. Grevilleas, bottlebrush, tea trees, banksias, kangaroo paws and flowering gums, with five rules for a pollinator garden and what's in the nursery now.

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Sunday Steaks at Fairhill: Wagyu Long Lunches on the Sunshine Coast
13 August 2026

Sunday Steaks at Fairhill: Wagyu Long Lunches on the Sunshine Coast

Wagyu MB6+ steak cooked by French chefs, served Sundays from 11.30am at the Gardens Cafe, with a new spring burrata every day. What a marble score means, and why Sunday lunch at Ninderry just changed.

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Secret Farm Tours: A New Kind of Family Day Out on the Sunshine Coast
13 August 2026

Secret Farm Tours: A New Kind of Family Day Out on the Sunshine Coast

Fairhill's new Secret Farm Tours put your family in the Kids' Barn before opening or after closing: your own ranger, the baby goats' breakfast or dinner feed, and the farm to yourselves.

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Backyard Science on the Sunshine Coast: A Family Guide for National Science Week
6 August 2026

Backyard Science on the Sunshine Coast: A Family Guide for National Science Week

National Science Week runs 15 to 23 August 2026, and this year's theme is Seeds of Science. Seeds, turtles, egg colours and pollinators: how curious kids can spend it outdoors at Fairhill, plus three experiments to take home.

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Quamby Chickens on the Sunshine Coast: Meet One of Australia's Newest Chicken Breeds
3 August 2026

Quamby Chickens on the Sunshine Coast: Meet One of Australia's Newest Chicken Breeds

One of Australia's newest chicken breeds is raised right here at Fairhill: excellent layers, calm natures, and a leg-colour trick that tells you who's laying. Plus Hy-Line layers, colourful Easter Eggers and Light Sussex available now.

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A $15 Day Out on the Sunshine Coast: the Fairhill Day Pass
30 July 2026

A $15 Day Out on the Sunshine Coast: the Fairhill Day Pass

One ticket, all three Realms, five dollars. Adults come in free with a child who has a Day Pass or Membership, and the Country Store, Nursery and cafes are always free.

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Fairhill Chill: Live Music Sundays in the Gardens
29 July 2026

Fairhill Chill: Live Music Sundays in the Gardens

Every Sunday with live music at Fairhill is a long lunch under the trees. This Sunday 2 August, blues duo The Charles Camilleri Connection return: free entry, music 11am to 2pm.

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Free Camping Near the Sunshine Coast, and How to Spend Your Days
28 July 2026

Free Camping Near the Sunshine Coast, and How to Spend Your Days

Touring Queensland on a budget? Free and low-cost camps near Kenilworth and Yandina, plus a free-entry day at Fairhill: nature's playground, a gardeners' paradise and the Wild Nature realm.

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Baby Showers at Fairhill on the Sunshine Coast
6 June 2026

Baby Showers at Fairhill on the Sunshine Coast

Planning a baby shower on the Sunshine Coast? Why Fairhill's gardens make a beautiful outdoor baby shower venue — high tea, grazing platters, housemade cakes, cookies and cupcakes, local-flower posies and how to book.

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Keeping Chickens On The Sunshine Coast
25 May 2026

Keeping Chickens On The Sunshine Coast

Buy pullets, point of lay chickens and heritage hens from Fairhill. We hatch eggs almost every week — meet the Hy-Lines and mixed heritage flock, plus our sub-tropical chicken-keeping advice.

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Fairhill the Wildlife Estate
21 May 2026

Fairhill the Wildlife Estate

Where nature still remembers — a living landscape for wildlife, families and future generations. Turtles basking, water dragons on the rocks, wallabies in the grass at dusk.

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Mad May Plants Sale — While Stocks Last
15 May 2026

Mad May Plants Sale — While Stocks Last

Special sale prices every day at Fairhill Gardens Nursery — beautiful native and subtropical plants marked down. Look for the yellow stakes throughout the nursery.

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Native Planting Guide for the Sub-Tropics
12 May 2026

Native Planting Guide for the Sub-Tropics

How to plant Australian natives in the Sunshine Coast subtropics — drainage, soil prep, mounding, mulch and aftercare.

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The Fairhill Grevillea Collection
11 May 2026

The Fairhill Grevillea Collection

Our acclaimed grafter's grevilleas — improved performance, broader soil adaptability, weeping and standard forms.

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Working With Children Compliance
September 2025

Working With Children Compliance

Fairhill's commitment to child safety: Blue Cards, WWC policies, and transparency for families visiting the gardens.

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How to Plant a Dwarf Flowering Gum Tree
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How to Plant a Dwarf Flowering Gum Tree

A practical guide to planting Corymbia ficifolia for show-stopping flowers in Sunshine Coast gardens.

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NEW: Ancient & Terracotta Pots
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NEW: Ancient & Terracotta Pots

Fresh in at Fairhill — handsome pots for the discerning plant collector, sourced for character and longevity.

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