Cultivate / transitive verb

1: to prepare or prepare and use for the raising of crops; also: to loosen or break up the soil about (growing plants)

2a: to foster the growth of <cultivate vegetables>
2b: culture
2c: to improve by labour, care, or study: refine <cultivate the mind>

3: further, encourage <cultivate the arts>

4: to seek the society of: make friends with

Cultivate has come to serve a multitude of meanings to me.

Cultivate is at is the heart of my landscape architecture and urban design consultancy. (Natasha is not currently taking on new projects)

Historically, my landscape architecture and urban design projects have been significant and international award winning government and intuitional projects - including The Australian Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne, (undertaken as member of the Taylor Cullity Lethlean studio). This expertise is supported by 10 years as a sessional Landscape Architecture lecturer and design critic at RMIT and Melbourne University, of which 4 years focussed on delivering within the Masters of Landscape Architecture streams.

Having an established reputation amongst the industry and clients through this experience in significant public realm and high end residential has manifested in me a passion for sharing knowledge through my teaching.

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Cultivate now represents the distillation of this knowledge for the purposes of sharing more intimately through workshops and creative collaboration.

Natasha’s internationally renowned property, Oak & Monkey Puzzle, was recently sold, and Natasha and her family now embark on new country adventure in Daylesford.

Natasha is currently creating her next personal project at a Little Cottage on a Hill, in Daylesford.

Here she will bring together the best of country living and the lessons learnt in her tree change with a purpose that began at Oak & Monkey Puzzle.

Here Natasha is creating an intimate and productive place to continue her workshop offerings and artisan syrups. It is intended as a place to visit, collaborate and learn, where I can share my landscape architecture, small-scale productive agriculture insights and passion for local artisanship with others via teaching and consultancy to further cultivate ideas in others.

Cultivate is also at the core of what Little Cottage on a Hill represents – a little parcel of productive land where we can grow ideas, harvest food and botanicals and use them collaboratively in the spirit of edibility, creativity, community, hospitality, and in celebration of seasonal bounty.