Ep. 68 Dr Patrice Newell AM
Patrice Newell has been a model, newsreader, host of morning TV and then, in the late 80’s left all that and became a renowned sustainable land manager and writer/researcher who dedicated herself to developing and communicating improved agricultural systems and innovations in an era of rapid climate change. And, as if that wasn’t enough, she’s now undertaking a new and very exciting venture developing an app for launch next year that we will discuss in more detail on this show.

She is an advocate for sustainable agriculture which she talks about in her books The Olive Grove, The River, Ten Thousand Acres – A Love Story, Tree to Table: Cooking with Australian Olive Oil and Who’s Minding the Farm? In this Climate Emergency, released via Penguin Random House in June 2019.

She is a founding member and president of the Hunter Olive Association.

She was the subject of the ABC-Television biography program, Australian Story.

In 2015, Patrice earned a doctorate at the University of Newcastle in Environmental Science: A strategic assessment of the potential for a new pyrolysis industry in the Hunter Valley, And is a regular speaker and advocate for climate change within the agriculture sector.

As of 2021, she is an Adjunct Associate Lecturer at University of Newcastle.

In the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours Patrice was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for "significant service to the environment, and to sustainable farming practices”.

www.patricenewell.com.au

Her books can be found on that website. 


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