We are growing Co-Culture, climate resilient communities that always include Indigenous knowledge, systems, plants and foods.
Our story
Our bold vision is to mitigate climate change by growing climate resilient communities.
In reducing climate-related risks to food security, human and animal health, and biodiversity imbalances, we empower systemically disadvantaged people to adapt and build resilience by championing, educating and integrating First Nations foods, plants and knowledges as their core tools.
We have a mission to ensure a regenerative future for all. Our belief is that the only way to do so is collaboratively with a co-culture approach. This means using the oldest systems thinking in the world. That of our First Nations peoples. In doing so we know that we can create more climate resilient thinking, being and doing. The creation of truly climate resilient communities.
We live by our motto ´Soil Not Oil,´and the foundation for all of our projects is healthy soil, animals and people. Our Labs core projects focus on designing climate resilient communities, project management, regenerative hospitality and events, recipe and product development and cultural curation.
Our team
We are a small team with a huge combined wealth of knowledge, skills and global network. As well as our core team, based on Ngadjuri country in the Clare Valley South Australia, we work with global collaborators from Hawaii to New Zealand, Italy to England and beyond.
Our Founder
With over two decades of experience working with our core tool to resilience, food, Rebecca Sullivan is on a mission with a huge sense of urgency to our planet, its people and her two young boys fuelling her.
Rebecca has a Masters in Climate Change & Sustainable Agriculture from the University of Agriculture as well as being a graduate of Environmental Leadership at UC Berkeley and is a YALE World Fellow.
For the past two decades she has been a social entrepreneur having Co-Founded Warndu, an Indigenous Food and Culture brand with her husband Damien. She is also Founder of the Granny Skills Movement which aims to cut waste by living more like our elders whilst protecting their vital skills such as pickling and preserving food.
She is also the Author of 11 books including the Award winning First Nations Food Companion.
“Living in and sustaining climate resilient communities relies on us embracing global cultural knowledge and embedding first nations systems thinking into everything we do.”