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What is Maslow
LandScouts
?
🗺️ LandScouts is our landscape design and discovery 🌿 branch, which handles everything regarding the actual land, i.e. Analysing, Designing, Buying, Selling, Rentals and Stays. This is the equivalent of a property management and permaculture design company. We need to identify land, analyse and design it into abundance. That is the power of the human being as a keystone species and we are excited to create santuaries of human flourishing with you!!
👓 Overview
🗾 Lets get "Real" Estate
Maslow Landscouts is our dedicated branch for discovering, planning, designing, securing, and stewarding land for regeneration. Whether you're a landowner with a dream, a family seeking your plot of paradise, or an investor ready to back land-based change — this is where your search becomes a journey. |  |
 | Older than any artificial intelligence (AI), Natural Intelligence (NI) is an automated system that has been on autopilot for billions of years. As the designer keystone species of this planet, we have an amazing superpower: The power to design with Natural Intelligence, to create landscapes that run autonomously, accounting for all natural forces. |
🧭 Why Land and Property Design Matters
“If you want to change the world, start with where you stand.”
So many people want to build something beautiful, to buy land or to revolutionise land they already own — but don’t know where to start.
So much land is underutilised and degraded — waiting for someone with a vision and plan.
There are thousands of farms for sale because owners don't have support, cashflow or community to back them up.
Many monoculture farms have been degraded and extracted from beyond financial practicality, they are ready for regeneration and community to establish pockets of paradise.
So many projects fail because of the wrong site, unclear understanding of all natural factors, no permaculture site analysis or mapping, lack of vision and design, unclear implementation strategies, financial uncertainty and lack of ROI.
So many people, families and communities want to live off-grid and regeneratively, but no one company exists to help them establish that end-to-end.
Permaculture designers and practitioners traditionally work silos, operating in isolation without support.
🗺️ LandScouts exists to fix all that.
It’s how we root the dream into the Earth.
Example: Limestone Permaculture Farm | |
2010 - We can go from this 👇 | 2021 - To this 👇 |
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If this is possible, then we feel it is imperative to do it everywhere. There is no physical reason why this is not possible, and thus the meta-potential of our species to design in this way, is how we, as Geoff Lawton says, "solve all of the world's problems, in a garden". | |
Syntropic farming is a new and ancient permaculture practice that can be implemented in any region, in any climate, in limitless ways – even in your own back yard. For over a decade the Lotz-Keegan family have been implementing permaculture practices to regenerate a degraded hillside into an abundant food forest of native and exotic trees that feed their family, their community, the wildlife, the soil, and their souls. | |
Andrew Martin once worked in the finance industry in Australia, but after learning about the true state of the world as peak oil and climate change begin to take effect, he knew he had to leave that unsustainable lifestyle behind and do something useful to help heal the earth and to be more resilient in the face of change. He and his wife Beth moved to New Zealand, where they’re in the process of turning green-desert farmland into a productive and bountiful permaculture forest of food. |
🌱 What Landscouts Does
Function | Description |
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🛰 Land Discovery | We scout land via satellite, drone, and local networks — looking for topography, water, fertility, and access. |
🏡 Listings & Profiles | Landowners can list properties, share their vision, or make land available for projects or co-stewardship. |
📐 Suitability Mapping | We analyze zoning, water, soil, access, and nearby ecosystems to help align each site with its best potential. |
🤝 Matching Buyers & Projects | We match regenerative buyers with the land that fits them — whether that’s for food forests, tiny home villages, or long-term sanctuary. |
📄 Legal & Ownership Models | We work with advisors to guide agreements: leases, co-ops, land trusts, shared title, or full purchase. |
👥 Who It's For
🏞 Landowners | who want to bring life back to their land or partner with Maslow |
🧑🌾 Buyers | looking to live regeneratively and need help finding land or a community that fits |
🛠 Developers & Builders | seeking permission, access, or shared land to launch regenerative sites |
🌍 Impact Investors | wanting to hold real land while funding world-changing work |
🏛 Municipalities | seeking partners to transform public or rural lands into living systems |
💡 The Paradigm Shift
“Land is not a product. It is a relationship.”
🗺️ LandScouts is helping shift our idea of land from commodity to community — from private to shared, extractive to regenerative.
🎯 Calls to Action
You Are... | Action |
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🌿 Landowner | [List Your Land] — turn your underused acres into a living project |
🔍 Land Seeker | [Find Land for Regenerative Living] — we’ll help match you with a dream site |
🤝 Partner | [Offer Land to Maslow Projects] — co-develop or lease with purpose |
🌍 Donor / Investor | [Sponsor Land Acquisition] — secure future sanctuary zones and commons |
📋 Curious? | [Book a Free Land Match Call] — talk to a LandScout to explore options |
🧑🌾 Permaculture Designer? | Want to learn permaculture? Join a course |
🎁 Products
What does Maslow
LandScouts
do?
☎️ 0. Land Consultation
The first step on the journey.
Before maps, plans, and soil tests — it begins with a call. This is where we meet our visions and start weaving possibilities together.
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☎️ 0. Land Consultation
📖 1. Site Analysis
A full “x-ray” of the land — past, present, and potential.
Research Phase: In order to make any design decisions, we need to have a clear understanding of the land itself, and all the factors at play. Climate zone, water flows, rainfall, vegetation, history, slope maps, elevation, distance to mountains and oceans, soil tests, and biodiversity, etc. With permaculture eyes, we read landscape like a book.
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📖 1. Site Analysis
🗺️ 2. Master Plan Design
Turning data into a regenerative permaculture property design, a map of the future.
Design Phase: Design… Is… Everything… The world around us today is largely the result of action without design. This is our most important product in that sense. A land design includes a full permaculture layout design based on the site analysis, detailing zones, structures, water, access, earthworks, food forests, placement of infrastructure, etc. Without a map of where we are going, how will we know when we get there?
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🗺️ 2. Master Plan Design
🚶♂️ 3. On-Site Visit
Ground-truthing the design with the land itself.
Location Scout Phase: Designing on paper is powerful, but nothing replaces walking the terrain. When we are able to visit a site, that is where the blueprint meets the soil, and together we begin to “read the landscape” in real time.
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🚶♂️ 3. On-Site Visit
🏡 4. Grand Master Design
The final roadmap — translating vision into an actionable, regenerative reality.
Locking Picture Phase: After the on-site visit, once the land has been felt and tested, the design shifts from theory to practice. This stage produces a polished, final master plan and a clear implementation strategy — the bridge between dreaming and doing.
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🏡 4. Grand Master Design
Buy & Sell & Donate Land
This is the "Real" estate agency of Maslow. Buy, Sell and Donate paradise, piece by piece.
Paradise has to be built somewhere in physical reality. We need land to do so. Either you are buying the land thats for sale, or we are buying it (or a percentage of it) from you and working with you, or you, as a current land owner, realise the importance of this mission and you just want to donate land to us, either way, we have to get back onto the land and create abundance. This is our property marketplace where you will find Maslow's listings for whole farms, properties and developments. We assist you with everything from finding to financing property.
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Rentals & Stays
The AirBNB of Maslow, find a spot, or rent our your spot, to short stay or long stay, or forever stay.
Find a community with an open spot, move your tiny house there, or a rent a tiny house that's already there, or getaway for the weekend and see what this is all about. That, or rent out your spot, build a few tiny houses and rent them all out, you do you, we handle the rest. Dip your toes, the water is warm. We are building a network of these properties that serve Life, and every stay goes towards supporting those that are supporting Life. Thank you, and you're welcome 🫂.
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📜 History
What is a 🍏 food 🌳 forest? | |
Have you heard of a food forest? In 2022 this video changed my life. The simple fact that this is possible… that we can design with nature and create abundance in this way, means that we can design a world, a Garden of Eden, where all our needs can be met by landscapes we design. This video is the seed of The Maslow Initiative. How do we go about making it possible and practical to do this everywhere? Lets co-create the world we would love to leave behind for our children. | "When I think of videos I've watched that changed my life, 'What is a Food Forest' by Geoff Lawton pops up first, immediately. It is the reason I attended Geoff's PDC in South Africa, while personally knowing nothing about permaculture or growing food at all. I just knew this stuff was extremely important the moment I realised that a food forest is a physical possibility, and I just had to find out more." - Bernard Myburgh |
🫂 Our Early Retirement Strategy
What is retirement? Define it how you like, but in the society we live in today, it generally means: "I have accumulated enough money to survive (go to the grocery store) until I die, and am able to leave some money (sense of 'security') for my children". This is not "living" in our opinion, money is absolutely not gauranteed to hold its 'value' over time, grocery store dependance is the greatest risk we think 99% of our species takes, giving our children a food forest will be more valuable than any amount of money or undeveloped property or bitcoin we can ever hope to amass.
Food literally grows for free on trees, gardens, with minimal effort, can produce an abundance of edible and wellness related plants. We can live in a kind of Garden of Eden paradise, all the time, and experience a truly fulfilling life, watching the growth of our food systems, and what will be an old growth forest for our grand children. This is the world we want to not only live in, but the one we want to leave behind.
Aren't you tired of survival by grocery store? The constant insecurity of a fluctuating "cost of living"? Or are you rich, and disillusioned with the endless pursuit of 'more'? Can you honestly say, with all that money, you feel a deep sense of joy? Are you sad about the state of the world and unknowingly or without an alternative option, you are contributing to its decline, and want a way out? Another kind of life. Do you want to build something that will outlast your life and be of value for generations to come? Are you, like us, ready to retire, take it easy, read books, watch all the great films together, build things in the workshop, sauna down by the river, enjoy your hobbies and life with your community? So are we.
We can meet our needs directly, together. This is the essence of The Maslow Initiative. And it starts with the land. This is what LandScouts does and invites you to do: We help people and communities find property and each other, and together, with pooled resources, we can design and implement into the landscapes, everything we need to meet our needs. This can be an involved process, but remember: once the earthworks, the roads, ponds and dams, the nurseries and irrigation, compost systems, gardens and food forests have been implemented, it is done. With 🏘️ Formations we are developing tiny houses and off-grid structures, but place or build any house you want in this kind of environment, then with minimal and enjoyable interaction, we can steer the system into super abundance and relax as we watch it grow. The system is designed to take care of itself, nature resets the rain, the sun rises itself, we are simply intelligent designers shaping the landscape to capture and process and flourish with the most energy for the least amount of personal physical input. Design is everything, and by design, we create automated abundance.
What will you do with your time when all your needs are met by the environment you live in? Let us know.