Healed land. Audited. Priced.
Verified carbon income from Australian farmland — independently audited, exchange-registered, and generating revenue now.
A$1.5M raise · 11% PDF · 7 verified farms · wholesale investors only
6,673 ha of Australian regenerative farmland — verified by Pangolin Associates, Southern Cross University, and Eurofins. The land is healing. The ledger is open. The returns are auditable. A$1.744M in verified gross revenue. A$3.5M invested. 42 investors. Running across New South Wales today.
This document is for wholesale investors only under s708(8) and s708(11) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). Not a product disclosure statement. Not financial advice. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
Cheap food hid the bill. The planet has been paying it.
The cost was always real. Only the invoice was missing.
A degrading planet has been pricing itself into our food, our weather, our water. Quietly. For decades. Four environmental debts — quietly accumulating — are now overdue. CSIRO estimates soil degradation alone costs Australian agriculture A$4.5 billion annually — before ecosystem collapse, water stress, and carbon deficit are priced in. The invoice is arriving.
"Soil degradation costs Australian agriculture A$4.5 billion annually — before ecosystem collapse, water stress, and carbon deficit are priced in. The invoice has been arriving for decades."
Four unbooked planetary liabilities · now maturing on a fixed schedule.
For wholesale investors only · s708(8)/(11) Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) · Not financial advice.
Australia's regulated ACCU market pays A$28–39/tCO₂e for verified soil sequestration — seven Fresh Earth farms are earning it today.
Source: Clean Energy Regulator (CER) · ACCU spot market · Q4 2024 registry
Under the 2022 ERF Soil Carbon Method, verified Australian landholders earn ACCU credits — market-priced and registered by the Clean Energy Regulator. Fresh Earth's seven farms are active participants: sequestering and certifying soil carbon across 6,673 ha, with credits settled through the national CER registry. A$26B in eligible ACCU issuance is projected by 2030. The infrastructure is already running.
Regenerative farming produced results that were real but unsaleable. The cost of practice change sat entirely with the farmer. No external price. No investable instrument.
ERF soil carbon method + Nature Repair Market + CER as registrar = a verified price per hectare per year. Verified regeneration can now generate more revenue per hectare than conventional extraction — on farms where the protocol is running.
A$26B in estimated eligible ACCU issuance by 2030 (CER · CSIRO). At A$28–39/tCO₂e, Fresh Earth is already generating A$1.744M in verified annual revenue. The infrastructure that locks in methodology, data, and capital structures now will be the infrastructure that scales across Australia. The window is not theoretical — it is running on seven farms today.
A$26 billion in eligible ACCU issuance by 2030. Hillview Park returned +0.7 t C/ha/yr in the first verified cycle. The window is open. The farms are already in it.
For wholesale investors only · s708(8)/(11) Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) · Not financial advice.
Fresh Earth is not a farm. It's the rails underneath one.
Four modules — DESIGN · VERIFY · VALUE · CONNECT — running in sequence. Named auditors on every attestation. A$1.744M verified in the first cycle.
Fresh Earth is the platform for regenerative land. Four modules — DESIGN, VERIFY, VALUE, CONNECT — run in fixed sequence: soil baseline and intervention plan (DESIGN), independent attestation by named auditors (VERIFY), exchange-registered carbon credit at market price (VALUE), and on-chain capital settlement against the signed attestation (CONNECT). Each module builds the next. Each subsequent farm costs less to onboard.
"Each module earns its place before the next begins. The same sequence runs on every farm — reducing onboarding cost and compounding credibility with every verified cycle."
For wholesale investors only · s708(8)/(11) Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) · Not financial advice.
Names on the title. Numbers on the ledger.
Seven farms. 6,673 ha. Est. A$50M independent land valuation. One verified baseline already ratified. This is a portfolio of named Australian properties with registered freehold and leasehold titles — not a fund of instruments.
Unlike funds that trade paper positions, Fresh Earth holds verified carbon operating rights across every farm — on-site operators, annual independent audit, and CER-registered baselines. The A$50M portfolio land valuation reflects 7 independent assessments of freehold and leasehold land (owned by participating landholders) — distinct from the A$15M company pre-money, which values the verification platform, protocols, and operational IP. Fresh Earth is the operator; the landholders hold freehold title.
Fresh Earth is the operator — landholders hold freehold title. Like a hotel manager, not the building owner. The A$50M is the independent land value of the 7 farms Fresh Earth operates across — it defines the REVENUE BASE that generates PDF income for the operating company. Larger asset base = more ACCU credits = more revenue for investors in the A$15M pre-money operating company.
Portfolio valuation: Est. A$50M based on independent land assessors (2024–2025 valuations, registered freehold and leasehold titles). Report available to qualifying wholesale investors on request.
Note — A$50M ≠ A$15M pre-money: The A$50M is the gross assessed land value of the 7 farm properties. The A$15M pre-money is Fresh Earth Universe equity — the company valuation, reflecting operating rights, verified protocol, and platform IP, not ownership of the land assets. Fresh Earth operates under registered titles, not outright freehold purchase.
For wholesale investors only · s708(8)/(11) Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) · Not financial advice. Title ownership confirmed; returns not guaranteed. Est. A$50M portfolio land valuation based on independent assessors (2024–2025, registered freehold and leasehold titles). Valuation report available to qualifying wholesale investors on request.
One year. Five gates. One signed attestation. No attestation — no credit.
One farm. One year. Five steps. Written down so anyone can repeat it.
Five gates run in fixed sequence — EVALUATE · DESIGN · SUPPLY · VERIFY · MONETISE — and no gate advances until the prior one is signed off. The same sequence executed on Hillview Park in 2024 produced a co-signed attestation, a CER-registered credit, and a verified investor return. No attestation, no credit.
Working example sources: Baseline measured by Pangolin Associates (Hillview Park 2024 audit) · sequestration verified by SCU soil carbon methodology · laboratory analysis by Eurofins · credits registered on CER (ERF methodology) · price range A$28–39/tCO₂e (CER 2024 registry) · settlement hash-chained on Hedera Hashgraph.
Attestation: a signed, on-chain proof that the farm did what it claimed — no attestation, no verified credit; no credit, no revenue. CER co-sign triggers credit issuance; Hedera settlement releases investor capital.
"No attestation, no credit. No credit, no revenue. No revenue, no PDF. The protocol is the gatekeeper for investor returns — and no payment leaves the waterfall until Pangolin Associates has co-signed."
For wholesale investors only · s708(8)/(11) Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) · Not financial advice. Past performance figures; not a projection.
Proof before credit. Attestation before settlement. No exceptions.
Four independent bodies. One hash chain. No attestation, no settlement.
Verification at Fresh Earth is a structural property enforced in code, not a policy claim. Every measurement, every audit, every photograph is recorded once and carried forward on the ledger. The field measurement, the auditor co-sign, and the on-chain attestation share a single hash. There is no place in the workflow for a marketing claim.
+0.7 t C/ha/yr source: Pangolin Associates Audit Report (Hillview Park, 2024) · laboratory confirmed by Eurofins · science methodology by Southern Cross University · CER registration number issued. Verification locks capital release — no audit hash confirmation, no credit issuance, no investor capital settlement.
For wholesale investors only · s708(8)/(11) Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) · Not financial advice.
The fee is last. The treasury is first.
The Platform Development Fee is MAX 11%, paid after the treasury floor is protected at ≥15%. When the land underperforms, the fee absorbs the shock — not the investor.
Soil carbon + biodiversity co-benefits + land appreciation
Farm operations, inputs, insurance, utilities
Fixed overhead — platform and reporting
≥15% of gross revenue · set here, before PDF is calculated · cannot be reduced by fee
MAX 11% · paid LAST · flexes down if treasury floor is at risk · cannot exceed 11% under any scenario
Standard applicable taxation on net position
Residual compounds inside the fund — grows with every verified hectare
Carbon: Soil carbon revenue represents ERF methodology certification across the full 25-year project life · A$28–39/tCO₂e market price · CER-registered
Co-benefits: Co-benefits: Nature Repair Market biodiversity credits (A$292k) + catchment water quality payments (A$177k) · Pangolin Associates assessment · subject to annual audit
Illustrative model — 7-farm portfolio (6,673 ha) · based on Hillview Park verified data · Eurofins / SCU / Pangolin Associates · Working example only · not a projection · subject to annual audit · past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance
PDF = Platform Development Fee (MAX 11%, paid only after ≥15% treasury floor confirmed by third-party auditor) · Treasury floor = compounding investor reserve (MIN 15% of gross — locked before PDF is calculated) · Co-benefits = biodiversity credits (non-cash, independently assessed, excluded from PDF yield calculation)
− A$460k farm operations / − A$105k admin overhead
= A$1.744M verified net revenue
− A$346k treasury floor (≥15% of gross, protected first)
− A$192k PDF (max 11% of net, paid last)
− tax → residual compounds in treasury
Footnote: Illustrative model — data from Hillview Park, verified by Eurofins / SCU / Pangolin Associates. Source: Pangolin Associates audit · SCU soil carbon methodology · ACCU spot A$28–39/tCO₂e (CER 2024 registry) · Eurofins laboratory analysis · Hillview Park verified baseline · Carbon revenue includes ERF methodology baseline period pool + biodiversity co-benefits per independent assessment. PDF paid only after ≥15% treasury floor confirmed by third-party auditor and verified net position signed off.
"When the land underperforms, the fee absorbs the shock. Not the investor. That is the waterfall."
For wholesale investors only · s708(8)/(11) Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) · Not financial advice. Not guaranteed. Working example based on Hillview verified data 2024–2026. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
Equity today provides founding rights to our future land token (FEVT).
This raise issues ordinary shares in Fresh Earth Universe Pty Ltd. FEVT — the Fresh Earth Value Token — is the instrument those shares are building toward. Founding investors hold priority access before FEVT is broadly available.
- Ordinary shares nownot FEVT, not a fund unit. This raise issues equity in Fresh Earth Universe Pty Ltd, the operating company.
- Priority rights to FEVT laterfirst right of refusal at founding-round entry price, pro-rata to your ordinary share holding, enshrined in the Shareholders Agreement.
- FEVT trigger: A$50M AUM or MIS registrationest. 3–5 years. Specific milestone, not open-ended.
FEVT (Fresh Earth Value Token) is NOT being issued in the current raise. The current instrument is ordinary shares in Fresh Earth Universe Pty Ltd. Any future FEVT issuance requires a separate offer document under Australian financial services law. FEVT is not a guaranteed return instrument. FEVT is not comparable to a term deposit or fixed-income product. Future wholesale instrument under s708(8)/(11) only — subject to regulatory conditions at time of offer.
Ordinary shares now. Priority rights to FEVT later — at founding-round entry price, pro-rata to your holding. FEVT milestone: A$50M AUM or MIS registration, est. 3–5 years. You buy the company building the infrastructure; the token is the future yield vehicle for that infrastructure.
For wholesale investors only · s708(8)/(11) Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) · Not financial advice. FEVT issuance is future-state, requires a separate offer document. Not guaranteed.
The ledger is open. The numbers are on it.
42 founding investors. A$3.5M raised. 7 farms. 6,673 ha under management. Hillview Park verified at +0.7 t C/ha/yr and ACCU-registered. None of these are projections.
Fresh Earth has run the full protocol — from practice change design through to independent audit and federal credit registration — on real land, in real time. Hillview Park's baseline is independently co-signed by Pangolin Associates, Southern Cross University, Eurofins, and the Clean Energy Regulator. Approximately 23% of this raise already committed at today's entry point. The mechanism works. The audit trail is public. The ledger is open. Pre-money A$15M + this A$1.5M raise = A$16.5M post-money. Independent verification evidence available at freshearth.world/audit-trail and upon request.
Annual audit cycle (March) · Pangolin Associates (lead auditor) · Southern Cross University (independent science) · Eurofins (laboratory analysis) · Clean Energy Regulator (federal registrar) · Hedera (on-chain settlement)
Hillview Park (1,167 ha) independently verified: Pangolin Associates (ecology) · Southern Cross University (soil carbon) · Eurofins (laboratory) · CER (ACCU registration). Portfolio-wide verification in progress across 6,673 ha. Public ACCU register: cer.gov.au · Platform: freshearth.world
For wholesale investors only · s708(8)/(11) Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) · Not financial advice. Figures accurate as at May 2026. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
A$1.5M raise. A$15M pre-money. Ordinary shares. Wholesale equity.
Wholesale equity in the operating company that runs Australia's data-verified regenerative land platform. Investors are protected first: treasury floor (≥15% audited) runs before PDF. Platform Development Fee: MAX 11%, paid last. The mechanism is already running on 6,673 ha.
Ordinary shares only — not a SAFE, convertible note, token sale, MIS, or FEVT issuance. Wholesale investors only s708(8)/(11).
Treasury floor ≥15% protected first · PDF max 11% paid last · investor yield gated by verified carbon uplift
Dividend yield from verified carbon revenue · FEVT token liquidity at MIS registration (est. 3–5 yrs) · secondary share transfer subject to board approval · no guaranteed liquidity event
Valuation basis: A$15M pre-money reflects verified revenue pipeline (Hillview A$1.744M/yr · audited Pangolin Associates 2024), proprietary verification protocols, 6,673 ha active land plans, and 42 existing investors. Not independently certified; subject to investor due diligence.
Hillview working example: A$2.309M gross → A$346k treasury (≥15%) → A$192k PDF (max 11%) → remainder compounds in treasury. Source: Pangolin Associates audit 2024 · CER registry.
- 1.Request the Information Memorandum — available to qualifying wholesale investors
- 2.Book a live demonstration of the Hillview Park verified baseline
- 3.Complete the wholesale investor certificate (s708 certificate)
- 4.Receive and execute the Subscription Agreement
This document is for wholesale investors only under s708(8) and s708(11) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). Not a product disclosure statement. Not financial advice. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
Five ways this doesn't work — and what we've built against each one.
Five failure modes — and how we built against each.
Honest risk disclosure is not a compliance exercise. It is the most direct signal of whether an investment team understands their own model. These are the five categories of material risk in Fresh Earth. For each, the structural mitigation is described in plain terms. Where residual exposure remains — because no mitigation is complete — it is named.
Ecological methods fail to deliver verified soil carbon uplift. Practice change is implemented but the measured result doesn't move enough to clear the attestation threshold.
Independent annual audit with three-year core comparisons, conducted by Pangolin Associates, Southern Cross University, Eurofins laboratory analysis, and the Clean Energy Regulator. No credit is issued without independent third-party attestation. If the land doesn't move, no credit is priced — the protocol produces no asset to sell. The fee structure (PDF MAX 11%) absorbs the revenue reduction before the investor's treasury floor is breached.
Weather variance · extreme rainfall or drought events · unexpected soil chemistry · CER methodology revision
Soil carbon or biodiversity improves and clears the attestation threshold, but carbon credit prices collapse or nature markets fail to develop at the anticipated rate.
Revenue is diversified across five verified streams: soil carbon (ACCU) + biodiversity (Nature Repair Market) + agricultural produce + water quality + land appreciation. No single-stream dependency. The co-benefit stack is additive, not contingent — each stream has its own independent verification and pricing mechanism. Land appreciation is structural, not dependent on credit markets.
Regulatory methodology change · sustained ACCU price decline · Nature Repair Market slower than projected · carbon market political risk
The entity holding the registered title (Fresh Earth Universe Pty Ltd or associated trust) faces an insolvency event, title dispute, or encumbrance that reduces the value or recoverability of the underlying asset.
Registered freehold and leasehold titles are held in a trust structure independent from the operating company. Independent board oversight. Annual audit includes asset integrity review. Capital settlement is gated on independent attestation — no attestation, no settlement. Maddocks engaged as named legal counsel.
MIS registration determination targeted pending regulatory schedule · LG-05 in progress · settlement structure finalisation pending
The Australian ERF soil carbon methodology, Nature Repair Market Act, or ACCU pricing regime is substantively revised by government, reducing the verifiable revenue per hectare.
Fresh Earth operates under federally-approved methodology and is registered with the Clean Energy Regulator — the federal registrar. This creates a relationship with the regulatory authority that provides early visibility of methodology changes. Revenue diversification reduces single-regulation exposure. The practice change value — soil health, biodiversity, agricultural productivity — is real independent of any regulatory price.
Political risk on carbon policy · methodology revision by CER · Nature Repair Market development pace
Ordinary shares in Fresh Earth Universe Pty Ltd are not listed on any exchange and have no public market. Investors may not be able to sell or transfer their shares on any defined timeline.
This is a private wholesale equity instrument. Investors are informed of the illiquid nature before any subscription. The FEVT structure — when issued under a future offer document — is designed to provide fractional liquidity via a managed fund structure. The current raise is positioned as a founder-round investment with a long-term horizon.
No guaranteed exit mechanism · FEVT issuance is future-state and requires a separate offer document · liquidity depends on future events outside Fresh Earth's unilateral control
For wholesale investors only · s708(8)/(11) Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) · Not financial advice. This risks disclosure is indicative, not exhaustive. Independent legal and financial advice is strongly recommended before any investment decision.
Our Vision: 50,000 ha of verified regenerative farmland across Australia — built on the 6,673 ha already generating A$1.744M today.
Phase 1 (6,673 ha) is verified and generating A$1.744M in annual revenue today. Phase 2 (50,000 ha) is aspirational — not funded by this A$1.5M raise, requiring future capital and regulatory approval. Verified by Pangolin Associates · Southern Cross University · Eurofins.
Forward-looking statement: The Phase 2 (50,000 ha) target and Phase 3 (2,000 farms) vision are aspirational. They are not funded by this A$1.5M raise and require future capital, regulatory approval, and board decisions.
The infrastructure is not soil-specific. It is measurement-specific. The same verified audit chain, settlement rails, and treasury structure scales to any farm, any crop. The 6,673 ha proof is running now, generating verified revenue. At 50,000 ha, FEVT converts platform scale into a self-sustaining capital loop. Scaling to 50,000 ha requires an estimated 3–5 capital rounds over 8–10 years — the first infrastructure cycle is complete and already generating returns.
- ·Hillview Park verified baseline complete · +0.7 t C/ha/yr
- ·6,673 ha portfolio in active land plans
- ·Second cohort onboarded from A$1.5M raise
- ·Biodiversity uplift (Nature Repair Market) first credits
- ·50,000 ha expansion target — aspirational, not funded by this raise
- ·Est. A$50M+ future capital required · 5–7 year horizon · board approval required
- ·Catchment water quality credits · Pejar Creek · Nature Repair Market
- ·The infrastructure is jurisdiction-agnostic · methodology-portable
- ·Adjacent verticals: freshwater catchments · forestry · fisheries
- ·Platform licensing to institutional land managers
"Phase 2 target: 50,000 ha across Australia. The same protocol. The same verification chain. The same four modules — already proven on 6,673 ha and running now."
For wholesale investors only · s708(8)/(11) Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) · Not financial advice. Forward-looking statements are indicative only and subject to regulatory approval, market conditions, and board decisions. Not guaranteed.
Ownership compounds. A tangible stake in verified Australian regenerative agriculture.
A$1.5M raise · A$15M pre-money · ordinary shares (equity) in Fresh Earth Farms Pty Ltd — full legal title, registered with ASIC · wholesale investors only. Forty-two investors in. A$3.5M committed. The land is healing.
Ordinary shares in Fresh Earth Universe Pty Ltd. Seven farms. 6,673 ha. 42 investors. Verified by Pangolin Associates and Southern Cross University — co-signatories on Australia's federal carbon credits. PDF: MAX 11%, paid last, after treasury floor (≥15%) is confirmed by third-party audit.
Soil carbon verified by Pangolin Associates · science by Southern Cross University · registered on Clean Energy Regulator (CER) · Hedera hash-chain immutable.
Platform Development Fee (PDF, max 11%) paid last — after ≥15% treasury floor is protected first.
To receive the Information Memorandum:
Request Information Memorandum — invest@freshearth.ioExpressions of interest via invest@freshearth.io before subscription close. Information Memorandum and Subscription Agreement available to qualifying wholesale investors on request.
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Capital structure: PDF up to 11% · paid last · only after treasury floor ≥15% is met · investor yield gated by verified carbon uplift
Dividend yield from verified carbon revenue · FEVT token liquidity at MIS registration (est. 3–5 yrs) · secondary share transfer subject to board approval · no guaranteed liquidity event
This document is for wholesale investors only under s708(8) and s708(11) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). Not a product disclosure statement. Not financial advice. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
Land Tokens (FEVT) are not being issued in this raise. The current instrument is ordinary shares in Fresh Earth Universe Pty Ltd. Future FEVT issuance will require a separate offer document.
This presentation is indicative only and does not constitute legal or financial advice. Recipients are advised to seek independent professional advice before making any investment decision. Verification conducted by Pangolin Associates (lead soil carbon auditor), Southern Cross University (independent science), Eurofins (laboratory analysis), and the Clean Energy Regulator (federal registrar · ACCU issuance). Verification evidence available at freshearth.world/audit-trail and on request.
The legal, methodological, and definitional fine print.
This document is provided to wholesale, sophisticated and professional investors only as defined in s708(8)/(11) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). It is NOT a prospectus, offer information statement, or other regulated disclosure document. ASIC sophisticated-investor thresholds: A$2.5M net assets or A$250,000 gross income in each of the prior two financial years.
Fresh Earth Value Tokens (FEVT) are a future-state offer requiring their own offer document, platform completion, outcome verification, and regulatory approvals. The current instrument is equity in Fresh Earth Universe Pty Ltd. References to FEVT describe future-state product architecture, not currently available securities.
Forward-looking statements depend on factors outside Fresh Earth's control. Capital is at risk; past performance is not indicative of future results. "Guaranteed" is never used. No comparison is made or implied between Fresh Earth's instruments and term deposits or other low-risk products.
Soil carbon: quarterly sampling at 0–10 cm, 10–30 cm, 30–50 cm, analysed by Eurofins. Biodiversity: annual ecological surveys. Water-infiltration: pre/post practice change. Audit signatory: Pangolin Associates. Science: Southern Cross University. Federal: Clean Energy Regulator. All readings hash-chained on Hedera Guardian; immutable post-signature.
The 11% PDF is floating, capped at 11% of verified net farm revenue, paid LAST, and flexes down before the treasury yield is reduced. It funds the OS infrastructure, audit pipeline, and next change of practice — making subsequent interventions cheaper, faster, and more credible.
FEVT · Fresh Earth Value Token. PDF · Platform Development Fee. CMF · Compliance Management Framework. RG 170 · ASIC Regulatory Guide on prospective financial information. s708(8)/(11) · Corporations Act wholesale/sophisticated/professional exemptions. CER · Clean Energy Regulator. Hedera · the DLT on which verification records are hash-chained.
Fresh Earth Universe Pty Ltd · Wholesale-only investor presentation · Read the Information Memorandum and Subscription Agreement before deciding.