Patrice Newell left a highly successful career as a model, journalist and television presenter twenty years ago to live on a farm at Gundy, near Scone in the Upper Hunter Valley, called Elsmwood. She lives at Elmswood with her husband Phillip Adams and their daughter Aurora. Patrice converted Elmswood into a biodynamic farm with cattle, olives and honey. An environmentalist, Patrice is the author of several best-selling books about life on the land.