At Tasmania’s Timbre Kitchen diners can be barter home vegies for restaurant meals in regenerative tourism model

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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.

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