“Thank you Natasha for a thoroughly enjoyable and informative workshop. I loved hearing your passion for all things garden and landscape. A lovely group and delicious morning tea, I came away with so many ideas and inspired to get started on my own Wicking Bed Garden.”

About the ‘Wicking Bed Garden’ Workshop

Transform your garden with water-wise wicking beds! Join me, Natasha Morgan, at Little Cottage on a Hill for a hands-on workshop where you’ll learn how to create your own wicking beds—self-watering systems that make gardening easier, more sustainable, and highly productive. These garden beds have revolutionised how I garden, especially in a climate where water conservation is crucial.

In this workshop, I’ll guide you step-by-step through the process of building wicking beds using IBC containers. Whether you’re working with a small space or looking to upgrade your current garden, you’ll leave with the knowledge and skills to create a thriving, productive, wicking bed garden.

What You’ll Learn

• The essentials of wicking bed design and how to conserve water in your garden

• Step-by-step instructions for building wicking beds using IBC containers

• Tips for planting and maintaining a productive wicking bed garden

• How to adapt wicking beds for different garden spaces—big or small

Workshop Highlights

• Hands-on instruction on building your own wicking beds

• A guided tour of the thriving wicking bed garden at Little Cottage on a Hill

• Personal insights and advice from Natasha on sustainable gardening

• A beautiful morning tea of just baked cake and hand-blended teas

Why Wicking Beds?

Wicking beds are an innovative solution for water-conscious gardeners. These self-watering systems store water in a reservoir below the soil, allowing plants to draw up water as needed. This not only reduces the need for daily watering but also helps ensure your plants thrive, even during dry spells. In just six months, my wicking bed garden has flourished, growing everything from celery and purple sprouting broccoli to edible flowers and sugar snap peas. It’s also saved my back. No more bending down. My repurposed IBC wicking beds are at hip height, so all my herbs and vegetables are easily accessible.

Who Is This Workshop For?

This workshop is perfect for both experienced gardeners and those just starting out. If you’re looking for ways to create a more sustainable and productive garden with minimal effort, this workshop will give you all the tools you need.

Location

Little Cottage on a Hill, Daylesford

This workshop takes place at my own garden, where you’ll get to see first-hand the wicking beds that have transformed the space. Nestled in the beautiful Daylesford region, Little Cottage on a Hill is the perfect setting for a relaxing and inspiring gardening experience.

Book Your Spot Today

Spaces are strictly limited to ensure a personalised, hands-on learning experience. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to transform your garden into a thriving, water-efficient space.

About Natasha:

Natasha Morgan is an award-winning landscape architect by profession and a multi-disciplinary creative collaborator by natural inclination. 

For a decade Natasha worked on some of Australia's most significant landscape architecture and urban design projects - notably several years spent managing the design and construction of The Australian Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne. Concurrently she shared her craft as a sessional lecturer in Masters of Landscape Architecture at RMIT and Melbourne Universities. 

In 2014 she made a tree change with a purpose to Spargo Creek, a tiny hamlet just outside of Daylesford in the Central Victorian Highlands.

Here Natasha transformed a dream into reality, creating Oak and Monkey Puzzle, the internationally renowned design, event and horticultural production focussed property and its idyllic gardens. 

Oak and Monkey Puzzle not only provided an evolving special hub for, garden design, artisans and craftspeople by way of workshops, collaborations, and bespoke events. It engendered a warm sense of community, sparked dynamic conversations, fostered collaborative connections, cultivated creativity and provided a place for meeting of the minds. 

It is here, also, that Natasha began her journey creating a way of life she had long yearned for. Rooted in her flower, berry and kitchen gardens, orchards and forest surrounds, she learnt to live with the land, the shifting season’s, and how to live ‘well’. 

In 2022, Natasha and her family moved on from the idyllic property. In this next chapter, Natasha has set herself the challenge of taking the best of the lessons learnt at Oak & Monkey Puzzle’s 5 acres, combined with her love for gardens, growing, harvesting, cooking and preserving, and distilling this in the design of beautifully productive and sustainably focussed gardens at her new 515 square metre Daylesford property, Little Cottage on a Hill. Now, at Little Cottage on a Hill, Natasha shares her passion for sustainable gardening, community-building, and the creation of beautiful, productive spaces through workshops and events. 

Natasha is a sought after public speaker, workshop teacher and facilitator, and creative collaboration partner.  Natasha shares her inspiring story of tree change, garden design, and country life, through guest speaker events, writing, her workshops, social media following, print and digital media.  She has been widely featured both locally and internationally, including Australian Woman’s Weekly, Country Style magazine, Better Homes & Gardens (Channel 7),  and recently The Block (Channel 9).