Biome Hive: Catalyzing Transformation Through Collaboration
Together, we create practical solutions that transform challenges into opportunities for a thriving future.
Our current project partnerships
Ratanang Colab, Mpumalanga
This collaborative project tackles food insecurity, unemployment, and environmental degradation in Bushbuckridge. Through a community hub, partners offer training in agroecology, river rewilding, and resilience building. The long-term vision includes a mixed-production farm, chicken enterprise, training center, and biochar production. Project Biome supports by sourcing resources, identifying financial opportunities, and providing project management expertise.
ReWild Mpumalanga
ReWild Mpumalanga, led by Geasphere, restores ecosystems and boosts local livelihoods. This collaborative initiative revives water sources, cleans rivers, and improves soil. The EcoHub tackles invasive species and creates economic opportunities, such as biochar production. Project Biome supports with expert project management and resources through strategic collaborations, supporting regional landscape regeneration through collaborative action.
Heal the Planet
Founded by the SAOSO Foundation, Heal the Planet is a transformative program focused on regenerating food systems through agroecology, landscape restoration, and watershed management, with a focus on empowering youth and women. Anchored in the Participatory Guarantee System network of Southern Africa, it offers a holistic approach to decentralizing food systems while addressing environmental and socio-economic challenges. This is a scalable model promoting food sovereignty and community resilience.
Bioregional Accelerator (BA)
Bioregional Accelerator (BA) is a dynamic, scalable platform for systems-level regeneration.
Piloting in Mpumalanga as part of the Heal the Planet Programme, led by the South African Organic Sector Organisation (SAOSO), the BA convenes 20 stakeholders through immersive workshops and ongoing collaboration to co-design integrated solutions that restore biodiversity, nurture food systems transformation and water rehabilitation, and strengthen cultural belonging. At the heart of the BA is a desire to cultivate community ownership through indigenous bioregional councils, empowering women and young to be stewards of their own landscapes.
Through Living Systems governance and local asset mapping, the BA transforms bioregions into decentralised communities of practice where culture, ecology, and collaboration converge to shape regenerative, sustainable futures.