🌼 Start Here

If you’re new to Natural Companion, welcome 🌱


You don’t need to know everything to begin.

You don’t need a perfect garden, expensive tools, or years of experience.

This page will gently guide you to the best place to start — simply, naturally, and without overwhelm.



🌱 Start with the FREE Natural Companion Starter Bundle

If there’s one place I recommend beginning, it’s here.

This free starter bundle brings together three gentle, practical guides to help you work with nature and build a thriving, living garden — no chemicals, no overwhelm.

Inside you’ll receive:

🌿 Companion Planting Starter Guide
Learn how plants naturally support one another to improve growth, resilience, and soil health.

🐝 Wings in the Sunlight – Bees & Butterflies Guide
Discover how to create a garden that nourishes pollinators and supports biodiversity at every stage.

🌍 5 Simple Ways Every Garden Can Restore the Earth (Soil-First Foundations)
Understand why soil health comes before planting — and how to build balance from the ground up.

This bundle will help you:

Grow healthier plants naturally

Support bees, butterflies, and beneficial insects

Build living soil without chemicals

Create balance and confidence in your garden

Start exactly where you are, with what you have

Download the Free Natural Companion Starter Bundle

🌿 Choose Your Path

There’s no right or wrong way to begin — follow what feels most alive for you.

1.

🌱 Grow Healthier Plants Naturally

Explore companion planting guides and courses designed to help your garden thrive in harmony with nature.


View Companion Planting Resources

2.

🍞 Nourish Your Family From Scratch

Learn how to make and bake with sourdough starter, creating real food that supports your family’s health.


Explore the Sourdough Course

3.

📓 Learn Slowly & Seasonally

Read Garden Notes — reflections, learnings, and practical tips from life in the garden.


Visit Garden Notes

1.

🌱 Grow Healthier Plants Naturally

Explore companion planting guides and courses designed to help your garden thrive in harmony with nature.


View Companion Planting Resources

2.

🍞 Nourish Your Family From Scratch

Learn how to make and bake with sourdough starter, creating real food that supports your family’s health.


Explore the Sourdough Course

3.

📓 Learn Slowly & Seasonally

Read Garden Notes — reflections, learnings, and practical tips from life in the garden.


Visit Garden Notes

🌼 A Gentle Reminder

You can’t do this wrong.


Nature will meet you where you are.

Each seed planted, loaf baked, or moment spent outside is already enough.

Welcome — I’m so glad you’re here 🌿

🌸 Meet Aley

Hi, I’m Aley — the heart behind Natural Companion. I grew up in the garden with my mum and granddad, carrying buckets of manure, watching giant pumpkins and marrows grow, and learning by doing. While items like derris dust were once a generational norm, they never felt right to me. I didn't like the idea of killing white butterflies (or any creature for that matter) so I made it my mission to find an alternative. There must be another way! As an adult, I chose a different path — one rooted in working with nature rather than against it. Through the garden, I feel deeply connected to my mum, my granddad, my ancestors, and the caretakers of the land who came before me. Each seed planted is a thread that ties generations together. Growing food for my family nourishes us physically, emotionally, and spiritually — and it reminds me that abundance is already here. Natural Companion is my way of passing this knowing forward.

Blog

All the latest tips, news & faves

SEED SAVING & SEASONAL LIVING

How to Harvest Sunflower Seeds

GARDEN NOTES

Advantages of Bottom Watering Peace Lillies

Our podcast

Welcome to the Natural Companion podcast, where I empower mothers to nurture their families through homemade food, sustainable gardening, and holistic growth. I’m a Mother of four and a Reiki Master Intuitive Healer, here to share the transformative art of sourdough baking and companion planting. For personal healing practices be sure to check out Release, Rebirth, Rise Podcast.

Each episode offers practical tips & expert insights to help you cultivate nourishing connections with your family and the environment.

Join me on this journey to thrive as a mother and caretaker of the earth!

Our top episodes




Don’t miss out on bringing nature, nourishment, and creativity into your home — from flourishing gardens to homemade sourdough, and everything in between.

OFFER 1

Ultimate Companion Planting Guide

Includes the 10 Part Companion Planting Video Course as a BONUS

OFFER 2

Garden Planner

OFFER 3

Companion Planting Course

Accessed alongside the Ultimate Companion Planting Guide

OFFER 4

How to Make Your Own Sourdough Starter

OFFER 5

How to Bake with Sourdough

OFFER 6

Freebies – Companion Planting Guide & Butterflies & Bees eBook

🌳 Every Purchase Gives Back

Each Natural Companion purchase supports tree planting through Trees That Count, helping regenerate the land and protect future ecosystems. Together, we’re growing more than gardens — we’re growing hope.

🌱 Let’s Grow a Better Future Together

Whether you’re planting your first seed, baking your first loaf, or teaching children where food comes from — you’re welcome here.

→ Join the Natural Companion Community