Working within each Vanua’s inherited stewardship, custodianship and guardianship practices, Regenerative Vanua is a not-for-profit which aims to restore pride in Indigenous Knowledge Systems, specifically by promoting and facilitating regenerative agritourism, regenerative gastronomy, and regenerative food systems.
Resisting all formal conceptions of what an office or headquarters might look like, the Regenerative Vanua Collective is housed at Numba 3, Port Vila, and includes the headquarters of the Pacific Administration for Regenerative Vanua and the Global Agritourism Network, as well as being host, home and stockist to a number of locally owned businesses supporting regenerative living, such as local food restaurant Kai Vanua, noble variety kava bar Kava Vanua, and traditional medicine retailer The Farmacy. The Collective also hosts programs and events such as local gastronomy cooking demonstrations, screenings of educational films focussing on regenerative living, and research seminars/symposiums.
The Regenerative Vanua Collective traverses and connects disciplinary, institutional, and cultural boundaries and acts as a threshold between wisdom from the past that we wish to embody, this complicated but promising present moment, and the future we are creating together. It is a space which encourages those who enter it – whether they be staff, guests, consumers, visitors, researchers, or politicians – to be community-oriented, and globally aware. To de-centre, redistribute, collectivise, and decolonise.