What happens when you move to Tasmania on a hunch, with a husband who aspires to be an alpaca whisperer and a feral cockerel? Can you cook the cockerel for dinner, or has it got rigor mortis?
Fiona Stocker is an English writer living in Tasmania,
Australia.
After graduating in the arts, she worked in London and Brisbane in
the fields of theatre, advertising, education and recruitment.
A circuitous route, sense of adventure and aversion to proper paid
employment took her to Tasmania in 2006, where she and her husband
established a small farm, food and agri-tourism business, Langdale
Farm. The couple raise Berkshire pigs and produce premium pork
products sold at an award-winning farmers' market and providores
across northern Tasmania. They host visitors in a converted studio
at the farm for eco-luxe farm-stay accommodation, and generally try
to live the dream.
Besides partnering in the farm business, Fiona works as a writer
and editor on books, e-books and online material and writes feature
articles for lifestyle magazines.
Her book A Place in the Stockyard, commissioned by Tasmanian Women
in Agriculture, commemorating their history and featuring many
personal stories of their members, was published in 2016.
She is on the Board of the Tamar Valley Farmgate Festival, which
launches in 2017, and the Tamar Valley Writers' Festival, both of
which have funding from Events Tasmania.
She was a judge of the Tasmanian Short Story Writers' Competition
of 2017, with shortlisted entries compiled in an anthology to be
launched at the Hobart Writers' Festival.
Fiona Stocker blogs as Apple Island Wife, and you can find her
social media under that name too.
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