LANDSMANSHIP - Key Persons

Paul Newell is now expanding the land of the family farm that is held without any debt, to develop at a larger scale, a live-in Landsmanship Self-Resourcing Agrarian community open to all people interested in learning how to farm self-sustainably under Australian conditions. This expansion of larger scale land held in perpetuity by a land-share trust, requires the immediate purchase of neighbouring dysfunctional land by the Landsmanship, Land Share, Education and Training Perpetual Trust. The additional land will be restored into a larger fully functional and productive enterprise as more people learn the arts of harnessing Nature to farm naturally to produce self-resourcing landscapes, as has been now achieved with existing Newell family owned lands. Proceeds of this project will go towards the purchase and ownership by the trust of more degraded lands and land-share education/training/practice by the trust as the core business and sole purpose of the trust, encapsulated in its name. Paul Newell's working lifetime of experimenting on the land, includes research with the NSW Department of Agriculture into multi specie crop and pasture practices in farming. For the past twenty years Paul has carried out research privately on various regional and family farming properties, into natural farming methodology, practical farm management, practice adaptations, education, training and implementation programs of "Landsmanship" principles as teacher / trainer / consultant in applied ecology. He has maintained his focus on the intense study of "Evolution Ecology" contributed greatly to "Restoration Ecology", innovative practices, "increasing" agri-ecosystem function and processes, species ecological roles and behaviour, human ecological skills, natural soil formation, the scientific understanding of whole of valley landscape ecology, particularly the understanding of the ephemeral nature of our Australian farming valley land and water "ecosystems" at scale, and their self-sustaining regeneration, as natural "self repair" with self replacing soil, plants, animals, wild life, energy, water and habitat in common for all species present, at low monetary cost.