Collaborators

We believe the outside spaces of your home or place of work are just as important as the inside spaces and that integrating your landscape design with your house design is the ideal approach to designing a home that is truly holistic, sustainable and reflective of your lifestyle needs.

We have a strong and valued partnership to bring these two disciplines together so that landscape planning decisions are integrated into the building/renovating design process. This is the ultimate permaculture approach where different elements are designed to come together forming one whole functional and stunningly beautiful system – your home!

We partner with Good Life Permaculture, Tasmania’s urban and small farm permaculture design specialists. Good Life also provide renewable energy advice and design – all to get you living the good life. Good Life provide a range of landscape design options that you can find here: Good Life Permaculture

If you are interested in ‘living the good life’ and creating a holistic and integrated home to support your ideal lifestyle, we can facilitate a design partnership on your project.

Please contact us to start a conversation about your integrated project.

“Thanks for these plans Jane and Hannah. They look really wonderful and we love all your ideas. Looking forward to getting stuck into some changes.  We hope you are both well and thanks for amazing listening and capturing the essence of what we are after.  Has been a great process. Looking forward to the next stages.” – Valued Taroona Clients.

Jess’s approach to landscape is grounded in a deep love of plants and the natural world. After completing studies in ecology, landscape design and permaculture she has spent her time working on residential gardens, small farms and school kitchen garden programs.

In her design work, Jess integrates edible, native and perennial plants to create resilient landscapes that are productive, rich in habitat and humming with life. She likes to help people find design solutions that work for their lifestyle and respond to their unique landscape.

“I believe the best outdoor spaces invite us to slow down, engage with nature and get to work caring for the land around us. For me gardening is a wonderfully creative and hopeful practice. Gardens allow us to bring a sense of wildness into our daily lives and give us the chance to leave our patch a little greener than we found it.”

When not in the garden you will find Jess walking her kelpie in the bush, cooking with friends or knitting jumpers for her baby daughter.

See more on the Golden Hour Landscapes website.

Nat believes that visual storytelling is the numero uno way to communicate positive ideas to a broad audience in these challenging times, and she’s chuffed to be the photo-taking conduit between good people, good ideas and the idea-hungry world.

In Nat’s words:

“I’m a multi-passionate mum of hungry, curious 11 year old twin boys. When I’m not feeding them or answering their endless questions, I’m a freelance commercial photographer working with a handful of amazing Tasmanians, and growing sustainable Christmas trees at our farm on the side. We’re establishing a productive garden and renovating our small 1950’s home using permaculture principles, while retrofitting small and slow climate actions into our everyday lives.

I’m about implementing small and slow permaculture-based solutions to my photography work, our farm business, renovation, home- and community-life.”

Nat lives and works on the Oyster Bay Nation/paredarerme, Richmond, lutruwita/Tasmania.

Nat is responsible for the photography used on our website / social media, and will be the photographer joining us, The Designful Crew, to photograph your finished extension, renovation or new home.

You can read more, + see more of her work, on Nat’s website here.