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Fresh Earth — the data-verified operating system where regenerating land becomes the world's next currency.

FRESH EARTH · IN PLAIN ENGLISH · FIVE MINUTES

Fresh Earth,
in five minutes.

If you have $500 and you want it to do something — not sit in a fund, not disappear into a charity — this page is for you. Plain English, top to bottom. By the bottom you will know what Fresh Earth is, how it works, and how to take a first step.

We heal Australian farms. We pay an auditor to walk the paddock each March and sign. We turn that signed page into a share of healed country anyone can hold — from a phone, from $500.

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THE PROGRAM IN ONE PICTURE · COUNT BY ICON

One icon, one farm. One filled icon, one signed.

WHAT IS TRUE TODAY · MAY 2026The Fresh Earth program, counted in pictograms.7 farms held in the cohort · 7 of the first 107 of 101 farm in audit cycle (Hillview · March 2027)1 of 1042 founding investors signed · 4 of the first 10 cohorts of ten4 of 106,673 hectares under stewardship · 7 of the first 10,000 ha tranches7 of 10The march to 2030 · 1 of the first 10 cohorts of 100 farms1 of 10One filled icon = one signed line on the ledger. Unfilled icons are the next ten years.
01 · PROBLEM

The Problem

Cheap food hid the bill. We’ve been paying it.

Flat hand-drawn poster of an Australian receipt on cream paper, items replaced by tiny pictographs (wheat sheaf, water drop, bird, cloud, fish) in soil-brown, single bold gold price-line at the foot.

For years we got food for less than it cost to grow. The land made up the difference. Now the land is asking for it back. That’s the bill.

Food got cheaper. Soil got tireder. Water got harder to find. The price didn’t change. The cost did.

Skinnier grass. Harder ground. Dams that fall faster than they fill. Birds you used to hear. Insects you used to swat.

Farm with the land and it heals. Heal it and it produces more. Produce more and you can pay for the work.

The bill is on the paddock. We’re finally reading it.
I · PLAIN · COUNT BY ICONHow big is the bill, really?Soils degraded by 2050 (FAO/IPCC)9 of 10Ecosystems under threat (IPBES)7 of 10People short of water by 2050 (UN-Water)6 of 10Mean wildlife loss since 1970 (WWF LPI)7 of 10One icon, one in ten. Filled icons are what is already true.
DIAGRAM · 01 · THE PROBLEM

Cheap food hid the bill. We’re paying it properly now.

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So someone had to build a way to pay it back. Not a campaign. Not a charity. A piece of working road.

02 · INFRASTRUCTURE

The Infrastructure

It’s not a farm. It’s the road that lets every farm get better.

Civic poster of four horizontal flat rail bands stacked vertically on cream, pictograph at left margin per band (pencil, tick, coin, knot), single gold ribbon threading vertically through all four.

Fresh Earth makes a few small things possible at every farm: a plan, a check, a price, a buyer. Together those four things change how the country gets paid.

Cover crop. Rotation. Rest period. Species mix. The plan fits your farm, not someone else’s.

Soil tests. Drone passes. Boots on the ground. The same check, every year, written down so the investor can read it.

Carbon. Biodiversity. Food. Water. Yield. Five things the paddock makes. Each one priced. Each one bought.

Plan, check, price, buyer. Four small things. One road.
II · PLAIN · DESIGN · VERIFY · VALUE · CONNECTFour jobs the system does, in plain EnglishDesign — projects on real land7 of 10Verify — outcomes measured & audited9 of 10Value — fifteen percent into the treasury6 of 10Connect — people backing the work4 of 10Filled icons = how much of each job is built today. Each one earns the next.
DIAGRAM · 02 · THE INFRASTRUCTURE

Not a farm. The road every farm uses.

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Rails are no good without country to run on. So next, the country itself — seven real farms, real names, real fences.

03 · LAND

The Land

Real farms. With names. You can point to them.

Civic infographic of NSW outline in soil-brown ink on cream, five solid-gold dots at exact coordinates, each ringed by a tiny pictographic icon (woolshed, dam, ridge, fence, gate), bold green hairline rule across the bottom.

Seven farms. NSW. 6,673 hectares all up. Hillview Park — that’s the first one. The rest are right behind it. Real country, with real people.

Three names you can find on a map. Seven titles, one state. Country with weather, neighbours, dams and gates.

Hillview is run by a fourth-generation farmer. He won Farmer of the Year in 2013. He’s the one who signs the audit each March.

Big enough to prove the system. Small enough to know each paddock. The right size for a first chapter.

Real farms. With names. You can point to them.
III · PLAIN · ONE PICTOGRAPH PER FARMSeven farms in the first cohortHillview · 1,167 ha · Woodhouselee NSW10 of 10Glenclair · 4,209 ha · NSW10 of 10Cooksvale · 760 ha · Peelwood road NSW10 of 10Cohort total · 6,673 ha · 2.27M tCO2e10 of 10Real titles. Real names. The list is short — and the country is real.
DIAGRAM · 03 · THE LAND

Seven farms. Real names. Now we change how they’re farmed.

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Seven farms. Real names. Real fences. Now we change how they are farmed.

04 · CHANGE OF PRACTICE

Change of Practice

Better farming, written down so anyone can do it.

Civic poster of five flat hand-drawn pictographs in a row (notebook, seed bag, boot, clipboard, coin), each connected by a single confident gold brushstroke as one continuous line.

A change of practice is a fancy way to say: try a better way of farming this paddock. We write the plan. We help do the work. We measure if it worked. Then we share what worked.

Cover crop. Rotation. Rest period. Species mix. The plan fits the paddock and the weather, not a slide deck.

Suppliers and operators help where it’s needed. The custodian still runs the country. Nothing is taken away.

Soil tests. Drone passes. An outside auditor signs the result. The result is on the chain so it can’t be quietly walked back.

Better farming. Written down. Open.
IV · PLAIN · NOTEBOOK · SEED · BOOT · CLIPBOARD · COINA Change of Practice in five plain stepsDesign — write the plan with the farmer10 of 10Supply — line up seeds, tools, training10 of 10Operate — do the work across the season10 of 10Verify — check the work in plain view10 of 10One picture per step. A protocol the next farmer doesn’t have to learn from scratch.
DIAGRAM · 04 · CHANGE OF PRACTICE

Plan. Do. Check. Share. That’s the change.

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A better plan only counts if someone independent says it worked. That part is the verification.

05 · VERIFICATION

Verification

A soil core. A clipboard. A pair of boots in the paddock every March.

Civic poster of six flat pictographs arranged in a circle on cream (soil core, drone, satellite, boot, clipboard, padlock), each in solid soil-brown with a gold brushstroke binding them as a continuous loop.

The way you know the work is real is that someone you didn’t pay walks the country with a corer, a clipboard and the protocol, and signs their name to what they find. Hillview gets that walk every March. The clipboard goes on the chain. The boot prints stay in the paddock.

They take soil cores at the same coordinates as last year. They photograph the dam. They check the rotation matches what was written down.

A core is a column of soil the width of a thumb and the depth of a forearm. You can hold one in your hand. It tells you what is happening underground without anyone’s opinion.

The core, the clipboard, the photos and the auditor’s signature all land in the same place. On a chain so it can’t be quietly changed later.

Trust is a thing you can hold. A core. A clipboard. A boot in the paddock.
V · PLAIN · CORE · DRONE · SATELLITE · BOOT · CLIPBOARD · LOCKSix pieces of evidence behind one verified outcomeSoil cores · lab-tested10 of 10Drone passes · seasonal8 of 10Satellite imagery · time series10 of 10Boots-on-ground audit visits7 of 10One outcome. Six pieces of evidence. None can be quietly edited later.
DIAGRAM · 05 · VERIFICATION

A soil core in March. A signature that isn’t ours. A record anyone can read.

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When the record holds, you can put a price on a share of healed country. That price is the token.

06 · TOKEN

The Token

Think of it like a community-owned farm. You buy a small share. Many thousands of other people each hold a share too. The farm is real. The audit is real. Every March a real person walks the paddock and signs.

FEVT is not a coin. It’s a fractional beneficial interest in a fund that holds real audited Australian farmland on registered titles.

Hillview Park, Woodhouselee NSW. 1,167 hectares. Audited each March by Pangolin Associates. Your share is on a real title you can drive to.

A piece of a real Australian farm. From five hundred bucks. From your phone.

What you own: a fractional beneficial interest in the fund that holds the named title, audited each March, redeemable per the deed.

Civic poster of a flat hand-drawn paddock outline on cream divided into a 10×10 grid, one centre cell filled solid gold, small flat figure-8 lemniscate icon hovering above the gold cell.

Think of it like a community-owned farm. The fund buys real Australian farmland. You buy in too — a small fractional share — and so do thousands of other people. The farm is real. The audit is real. Every March a real person walks the paddock and signs. FEVT isn’t a coin — it’s a receipt for your share of a real audited farm, held through a fund that owns the registered title. As the land heals — biodiversity up, soil carbon up, water held longer — the value of what you own goes up with it. From five hundred dollars. From a phone. (Heads-up: Land Tokens are not being issued in the current raise — what’s offered now is the Founder’s Equity unit.)

Hillview Park, Woodhouselee NSW. 910 hectares. Project ID: FE-2026-HV-001. The title is held by the fund and registered on the New South Wales cadastre. The deed names what you own: a fractional beneficial interest in real audited Australian farmland, held through the fund that owns the registered title.

Each March, Pangolin Associates walks the paddock and signs the audit. Southern Cross University runs the science. The Clean Energy Regulator gates the carbon. The signed page is filed on the Guardian register on Hedera, queryable per unit.

You don’t need a broker. You don’t need a fund manager. You need a phone and a credit card.

Small on purpose. Real on purpose. Audited on purpose.
VI · PLAIN · ONE TOKEN · ONE SQUARE · ONE PLACEA hundred shares. Yours might be one of them.1 m² each · row 1 of titled paddock10 of 101 m² each · row 2 of titled paddock10 of 101 m² each · row 3 of titled paddock10 of 101 m² each · row 4 of titled paddock10 of 10One token = one share of titled, audited Australian farmland. From A$500.
DIAGRAM · 06 · THE TOKEN

A share. A title. A deed. A phone.

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A single share is small on its own. What makes it work as an engine is where the money goes first — the treasury.

07 · TREASURY

The Treasury

We pay the soil first — fixed at 15% out of the waterfall, residual into trust.

Civic poster of a flat hand-drawn glass jar on cream half-full of small flat gold seed pictographs, tap above labelled with “15%”, three flat paddock pictographs sprouting green growth below.

Before anyone gets paid, expert, supplier and operator costs clear first. Then 15% Platform Development Fee — contractually fixed, paid out of the waterfall, to the operating system. The remainder flows to treasury, then tax. That money goes back into more land, more work, more healing. We’re building a kitty that doesn’t empty.

Every project, every year, the platform takes 15%, contractually fixed, paid out of the waterfall, to the operating system.

Most companies pay shareholders first and the planet last. We swapped the order.

It’s not a slogan. It’s a rule. At most fifteen percent. Paid last. Forever.

We pay the soil first — fixed at 15% out of the waterfall, residual into trust.
VII · PLAIN · TAP · JAR · NEW PADDOCKA jar that fills itself · 15% of every projectOf every project · 15% goes in first1 of 10The jar (treasury) · grows each cycle6 of 10New paddocks fed from the jar4 of 10More paddocks · more 15% inflow6 of 10We pay the soil first. The jar fills the next paddock. The next paddock pays the jar.
DIAGRAM · 07 · THE TREASURY

At most fifteen percent. Paid last. Forever.

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A treasury that pays the soil first only matters if the cap table is wide. Lots of small owners, holding deeds. That is the movement.

08 · MOVEMENT

The Movement

The power of the many. With deeds.

Civic poster of twenty flat hand-drawn flag pictographs in a loose half-arc on cream, each pennant a tiny figure-8 in solid gold, flag-poles in soil-brown.

Lots of people have wanted to help the land for a long time. Until now there was nowhere to put that wanting except a donation. Now there’s a deed. That changes things.

Donations help. They don’t compound. The dollar leaves and doesn’t come back.

A small ticket from a lot of people becomes a real-sized cheque. A real-sized cheque buys a real paddock.

KYC, payment, deed, audit — all the work that used to take a broker and a fortnight, now takes ten minutes.

One share is small. A million shares isn’t.
VIII · PLAIN · ONE FIGURE · ONE STAKE · ONE PIECEThe power of the many · ten rows of ten42 founding investors so far4 of 10Crowd-source funding round (open)8 of 10Wholesale offer (open · A$6M target)6 of 10Capacity in front of us (room to grow)9 of 10One pictograph per stake. Filled = signed. The room is large; the table is widening.
DIAGRAM · 08 · THE MOVEMENT

The power of the many. Now with deeds attached.

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Once a movement holds country, you can ask the next question: what else can these rails carry? That is the future.

09 · FUTURE

The Future

Buy a share at Hillview today. Your kid walks the same paddock at twenty and the grass is taller.

Civic poster of a single flat horizontal infrastructure bar on cream in soil-brown ink, five vertical pillar pictographs rising from it (paddock, body, water drop, carbon molecule, sun), leftmost pillar filled solid gold.

Five hundred bucks. One share. A real coordinate at Hillview Park you can drive to. The kid you bought it for will be old enough to walk it themselves before the second attestation comes through. By the time they’re paying their own rent, Pejar will have its first cycle done. The future is your deed, twenty years older.

It fits in a phone. It points at a coordinate on 910 hectares of country in the Southern Tablelands. The custodian is a fourth-generation farmer who signs the audit each March.

Twenty years of rotational grazing, cover-crop seasons, soil cores every March. By 2046 Hillview has run six cycles. Pejar has run four. Glenclair has run six.

A river runs through Pejar. Same seven farms. Same custodians. Same auditors envisaged. Different cargo: water quality instead of soil carbon.

Your kid walks the same paddock at twenty and the grass is taller.
IX · PLAIN · LAND · HEALTH · ENERGY · EDUCATIONOne chassis. Four substrates. Built once.Land — built today9 of 10Health — building4 of 10Energy — chassis ready, substrate waiting2 of 10Education — chassis ready, substrate waiting1 of 10Same chassis. New substrate. Every industry that has to prove an outcome.
DIAGRAM · 09 · THE FUTURE

A$500 today. A share at Hillview. A greener paddock when your kid is grown.

HOW TO ACT · THREE FIRST STEPS

You have read it. Here is how to be in it.

  1. STEP 01Start with $500Hold a share of healing Australian country. From your phone. As the land heals, the treasury compounds.SEE THE TITLE, THE AUDIT, AND THE DEED →
  2. STEP 02Walk the audit trailEvery plan, every measurement, every audit — on one record. The same record an investor, a farmer and an eater all read.SEE AN ACTUAL SIGNED AUDIT →
  3. STEP 03Invite a friendOne share is small. A million shares are not. The power of the many. With deeds attached.READ THE MOVEMENT →

From concern to conviction.
Problem to profit.

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