Cultivate Nature CULTIVATE NATURE
A tree growing from desert, bush and water

Cultivating business models
to support nature.

Nature in Australia runs on goodwill, and goodwill is running out. We put real business models underneath the people and places doing the work.

Build your plan, free

Answer ten questions, walk away with a brief for your nature venture.

Put simply: we help nature make money.

What we do

We help nature ventures transition to being profitable and sustainable. We get in and share the risk and the reward.

For business

We are your concierge into nature. Real programs, real places and real outcomes your customers can see, built from budgets you already spend.

For nature ventures

Wildlife parks, nature attractions and the ventures built on love. We advise, we bring the business model, the partners and the visitors, and when a venture is changing hands we run the due diligence so whoever takes it on knows exactly what they are taking on.

For landholders

When a much loved block or property needs a way forward, we transition ownership for longevity and purpose, and the land keeps its people and its future.

How we work

Skin in the game

We are not consultants watching from the sidelines. We get in, carry risk alongside the venture, and win only when it does.

Donations go further

We put business models underneath the operations, so every donation and sponsorship funds the future instead of the power bill. We do not run charities and we never compete with them. We make their work go further.

Succession is our craft

When a founder needs a way forward, we transition ownership for longevity and purpose. We have spent a decade doing it for farms, and the nature sector needs it just as badly.

Modern methods, more outcomes

We run lean with the newest tools and ways of working, so the work costs less and moves faster, and more of every dollar reaches the ground.

Sam Marwood

Who we are

Led by Sam Marwood.

Sam has spent twenty years making the ventures people love stand on their own, across farming, conservation and technology. He knows what it takes to get nature businesses on track, and he leads a team that gets in, shares the risk, and stays for the long run.

First Nations partnership is part of how we work, not an add on.

What we are building

What we are thinking about

Who we work with

Bring us your venture, or bring us your company.

If you run a nature venture that deserves a future, or a business that wants a real way into nature instead of a borrowed story, we would love to talk.

Talk to Sam Marwood