Freya Latona
Freya Latona is a Byron Bay raised, now Sydney based writer. She is represented by Curtis Brown literary agency, and has a PhD in creative writing. Her memoir about grief was recently shortlisted for the Finch Memoir Prize 2017. She lives in a tiny workers’ cottage with her fella and two rescue pups.
Nurturing Nature: School-Based Nature Education
Culture, EssaysGrowing connections beyond the classroom with school-based nature education programs.
A Remnant of Rainforest
CultureWriter Freya Latona finds respite in a patch of remnant rainforest.
Healing Women, Healing the Earth: An interview with Jane Hardwicke Collings
CultureFreya Latona chats with women's mysteries teacher and founder of the school of sharmanic womencraft, Jane Hardwicke-Collings.
Awakening the Activist: Right Here, Right Now
CultureWriter Freya Latona on what it means to be an environmental activist, right here, right now.
Life Lessons: Florist Melanie Stapleton
PeopleA chat about life, family and flowers with the founder of Melbourne florist, Cecilia Fox.
A Life Without Bugs is no Life at all
CultureA chat with an etomologist about all things insects - their decline, importance, and how to help.
City of Trees: a Chat with Sophie Cunningham
PeopleFreya Latona chats with author Sophie Cunningham about her new book, City of Trees.
The Past, the Present and the Garden
CultureFreya Latona explores the role of nostalgia in garden making.
Whose Tree is it Anyway?
CultureOn trees and humans co-existing in urban areas. And an elegy.
The Last Glimpse of Garden: Landscapes and Death
CultureOn seeing plants as partners on the wheel of life and death.
Seeing the Jungle for the Trees
CultureIs it time we changed the way we depict jungles, from places of fear to reverence?
Writing and Wombating: a Chat with Jackie French
PeopleFreya Latona catches up with the beloved Australian author, ecologist and gardener.
A Love Letter to My Neighbour’s Ugly Garden
GardensFreya Latona's neighbour has a beautifully ugly garden.
Erin Lovell Verinder’s passion for plants that heal
PeopleErin Lovell Verinder is a plant-obsessed herbalist, nutritionist, energetic healer and wellness writer.
Sexologist Juliet Allen on Lust and Nature
PeopleFreya Latona chats with sexologist Juliet Allen about the relationship between lust and nature
Inga Simpson is a Writer and Woman of the Trees
PeopleFreya Latona chats with Inga Simpson about her latest book, Understory.
Abandon Floral Foam. NOW!
Culture#nofloralfoam. Get on board.
Landscape is Destiny: A Chat about Home with Author Holly Ringland
CultureWe chat to the author of 'The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart' about home and landscape.
A Home Among the Gum Trees: the Pull of the Treechange
CultureFreya Latona muses on our innate desire to find home amongst nature.
Angus Stewart on Attracting Native Animals to the Garden
GardensA chat with the boss man of Australian native plants about creating habitat gardens.
Redefining our Animal Nature
CultureFreya Latona suggests it's time to redefine our animal nature as a means of re-connecting with the natural world.
A Guide to Creating Mystery in the Garden
GardensA chat to two of Australia's foremost garden designers - Michael McCoy and Fiona Brockhoff - about creating mystery in the garden.
Musing on Nature’s Mysteries as a Pathway to Mindfulness
CultureA celebration of the relationship between mysterious nature and the cultivation of the human spirit.
Wild: the Healing Relationship Between Nature and Grief
CultureWriter Freya Latona explores the healing power of nature in the face of human suffering and grief.
Nature as Metaphor
CultureAn exploration of nature's gentle spiritual teachings on the human capacity for renewal by Freya Latona.
The Nature of Revolution
CultureClimate change, humans and a big fat green revolution. It's time.
On Creativity, Isolation and Nature
CultureAn exploration of the relationship between solitude, nature and creativity by writer Freya Latona.
From Dunny Lane to Secret Garden
GardensFreya Latona has transformed an inner city dunny lane into a lush, leafy garden.