A restaurant in Tasmania’s north is championing a movement known as ‘regenerative tourism’. It involves bartering, where growers provide produces in exchange for a meal.
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00:00At one of the oldest vineyards in the Tamar Valley, Chef Matt Adams is preparing a feast.
00:09What's unique about this meal is its ingredients.
00:12Community members bring armfuls of fruit and vegetables.
00:16Their payment?
00:17A dining voucher.
00:18It's just people that love produce and love growing produce in their backyard and it makes
00:23them happy to come and see us every week and makes us happy.
00:27This unique food economy means Tamba Kitchen's suppliers become frequent diners.
00:32I grow food for Matt in our vegetable garden at home.
00:37It's as simple as that.
00:38I'm retired so I don't cook anymore but I grow produce.
00:40Bring the food in, drop it off, come back a week later and eat it and it's on your plate
00:45and it's very different to when you dropped it off.
00:49Matt designs a daily menu based on what growers deliver.
00:53We do shared table banquets so it really gives us the opportunity to go right, we're going
00:58to use all of that product over the next two days.
01:02Preservation, pickling and fermenting helps extend the shelf life of fresh produce so
01:07nothing goes to waste.
01:09Guys in the kitchen will get into vinegar so like all the apples that we received this
01:13year were being turned into cider vinegar, some of them turned into an apple crumble.
01:18Tamba's business model is the backbone in new research on food tourism.
01:23Regenerative tourism's about making it better, having other people benefit just as much from
01:28food tourism as the business owner themselves.
01:32The handbook on food tourism takes the reader on a global tour of different eating experiences
01:38from sustainable noodle supplies in Shazhou, China to the regenerative practices right
01:43here in the Tamar Valley.
01:45It's quite important what we're doing here with our food because we are such a food destination.
01:51Research on more regenerative models helps to ensure Tasmania's food industry will continue
01:56to thrive.