COMMUNITY PROJECTS
We have a number of project types offering different ways for people and organisations to get involved in regenerating the Peninsula
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Mapping a Knowledge Common
Building a shared map bringing together knowledge and learning collaboration toward the regeneration of the Peninsula.
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Storying Place
Engaging people to remember, listen, learn and share stories about caring for the Peninsula and how she cares for us.
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Practice & Exchange
Co-creating a bioregional learning and research centre through engagements, programs and demonstrations.
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Regenerative Finance
Designing ways for financial flows to support land and sea care, local businesses, and retain value within the Peninsula’s villages and towns.
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Escarpment Roundtable
Cross-pollination of knowledge for shared evolution that benefits people and the peninsula.
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Soil and Food Systems
Living Labs at homes, schools, farms, hospitality venues, vineyards, and natural systems.
CASE STUDIES
WONGA ARTHURS SEAT ESCARPMENT
Regenerating Mornington Peninsula is currently facilitating a collaborative roundtable focused on the Dromana Wonga Arthurs Seat Escarpment, in partnership with the Dromana Association and a growing group of local organisations.
The purpose is to support shared care for land, culture, community wellbeing, and the local economy through collaboration between community groups, businesses, land managers, government agencies, landowners, and residents.
The roundtable helps align efforts, reduce duplication, and support practical projects that address current needs while building long-term resilience for the area.
We are seeking funding to support demonstrations, coordination, and projects that can be sustained and passed on to future generations.
MAPPING THE PENNISULA
We are working toward a shared digital map and knowledge resource that brings together information about the Peninsula’s land, water, ecosystems, culture, economy, and governance.
This work is informed by international examples where regions have mapped their own knowledge to support smarter planning, collaboration, and investment.
The map helps communities, organisations, funders, and decision makers to:
See connections across projects and places
Identify gaps and opportunities
Coordinate effort and funding
Support better long-term decisions
This work connects the Mornington Peninsula to a growing global movement of place-based, community-led development.
COMPOSTING AND FOOD SYSTEMS
We are exploring a potential partnership to introduce advanced residential, business and community composting systems and education programs across the Mornington Peninsula.
This work supports healthier soils, reduced waste, stronger local food systems, and learning opportunities for homes, schools, farms, hospitality, businesses and communities.
The partnership begins with a series of demonstration sites and will then establish local manufacturing to produce this New Zealand-designed and engineered product locally.
By linking practical composting systems with education and engagement, this initiative helps build local capability and improve local food systems, environmental, and economic outcomes for generations to come.
HUM COMMUNITY
In partnership with Regen Melbourne and the Wellbeing Protocol, which supports the wellbeing economy, we are exploring how communities can collectively shape funding and governance to reflect local knowledge, shared responsibility, and care for place.
This work helps communities better understand their potential and priorities and attract resources into their local systems to meet their needs on the ground.
Using the Hum Community tool, communities collectively allocate funding in ways that reflect local relationships and shared responsibility, while funders support action through transparent, high-trust processes.
Through this work, we are learning how participatory governance, community readiness, and funding design can better support place-led priorities over time.
We are working to build a local micro-funding ecosystem that sustains activities at the village and town level across the Peninsula.
THE INVITATION
The success of Regenerating Mornington Peninsula depends on creating conditions that enable people, projects, and partners to engage in meaningful ways.
We invite community groups, First Nations collaborators, educators, practitioners, storytellers, creatives, businesses, and philanthropies to bring forward existing or emerging projects, demonstrations, living labs, and stories that contribute to the well-being of land, water, people, and local economies across the Peninsula to help visualise and develop an interconnected living system of human activity.
Our role is to help surface, connect, and support this work through place-sourced partnerships, shared learning, and the development of regenerative practice and finance pathways that enable early demonstrations and long-term outcomes.
There is no single pathway or predefined role. You might participate as a steward, collaborator, educator, designer, storyteller, investor, or supporter.
This is not a commitment, only an invitation to explore what exists and what might be possible together.
