For one morning, their entire shop is yours. This is the rare part. Carla and Simon are opening the whole of Oak Lane & Co to you as your styling library — two heritage rooms of antique furniture, vintage linen, silver, ceramics, glass and objects imbued with the stories of time. You will handle and hold them, gather and arrange, build a table and pull it apart and build it again, fully immersed in the collection as though the shop were your own home. To it Natasha brings winter's own materials: lichen-crusted branches, moss, hellebores and the quiet botanicals she forages from the secret country lanes and forested places of the Central Highlands.

Together, Natasha, Carla and Simon share what sits beneath a beautiful table — how to source with an eye, read a season, compose a still life, and turn an ordinary gathering into something people remember.

Across the morning, you will:

Learn to compose a tablescape the way a painter composes a still life — working with light, height, shadow and restraint, so the table holds together rather than simply being set.

Forage and arrange winter botanicals — branches, moss, lichen, seedheads and bare stems — and learn how Natasha sources and conditions them so they last the night.

Style from a living collection, choosing your own antique vessels, linens and objects from the Oak Lane & Co rooms, and learning how patina, age and imperfection do the work that newness cannot.

Build a complete Winter Table of your own within the premises, and leave knowing how to recreate the feeling at your own table, with what you already have.

You will go home with a printed resource guide — Natasha's notes on winter foraging, composition and care — so the morning carries on long after you've left Piper Street.

A note on what's changing. With The Productive Garden Companion arriving on 15 September, Natasha's teaching is shifting shape. There will be fewer workshops at Little Cottage on a Hill, and more held inside the worlds of the collaborators she most admires — people like Carla and Simon. Days like this one will be rarer, and more particular, from here.

The details

• When: Monday 3 August 2026, 10am–1pm

• Where: Oak Lane & Co, 66 Piper Street, Kyneton, Macedon Ranges

• Cost: $320 per person

• Included: a morning tea of small treats by Piper Street Food Co, with tea, coffee and Natasha's seasonal signature syrups (Preserve by Natasha Morgan); full use of the Oak Lane & Co collection as your styling library; foraged winter botanicals sourced by Natasha; and a take-home printed resource guide.

• Numbers: strictly limited, to keep the morning intimate and hands-on.

Where this comes from

The Winter Table grows from the same ground as Natasha's book, The Productive Garden Companion (Murdoch Books, out 15 September 2026): a way of living rooted in foraging and seasonality, in beauty and abundance, and in the small rituals that turn a house into a home. This morning is that philosophy, set on a tabletop. You can pre-order the book here.

About Natasha

Natasha Morgan is a landscape architect and urban designer, the author of The Productive Garden Companion (Murdoch Books, September 2026), and Global Community Manager at Gardenstead. She gardens at Little Cottage on a Hill in Daylesford — 515 square metres opposite the Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens — having spent close to a decade before that making Oak & Monkey Puzzle, the five-acre garden at Spargo Creek she found in 2013 and moved to in 2014.

Across thirty years she has worked as a designer, teacher, writer and maker of experiences, including two years immersed in the world of flowers and bespoke events alongside some of Melbourne's most sought-after florists and event designers. She can most often be found among branches and blooms — grown in her own cut-flower beds or gathered from the lanes of the Victorian Central Highlands. Her work and gardens have featured widely, including Gardening Australia, Country Style, Better Homes and Gardens, The Design Files and The Block.

About Carla and Simon

Established in 2018 by Carla and Simon, Oak Lane & Co brings together a shared, lifelong passion for architecture, gardens, interiors, antiques and vintage, music, the arts and travel. Across two heritage buildings on Piper Street in Kyneton, they gather and style hand-picked antique Australian, English and French furniture, decorative objects, homewares and quality newly-made goods for the home. They believe the age-related character and patina of a piece are an irreplaceable part of its story — and they invite you to handle and hold each one, and to imagine how it might live in your own rooms.

We look forward to welcoming you.