The Remakery is just our home base.
We share it with lots of different enterprise
and a few other businesses and really the
building itself is just dedicated to the community
to come and do and explore and learn new ways
of doing things together.
Common unity powers it, and I think it's an
incredibly powerful action when we come together,
particularly around the needs of our children,
with our own kai.
You're one of those who have got one of these
backyard farms going tell us how that all
came about?
It started with the Housing New Zealand initiative
with the common unity project.
I was approached by Housing New Zealand as
a tenant, and I accepted and from there, Hannah
helped me to get everything that I needed,
sorted and start putting in the garden.
They started off providing the first lot of
plants and every now and then they'll find
something interesting that they want to bring
to me and see if I want to put it in my garden,
which is really helpful.
But a lot of it is self seeding, and getting
things from like random seeds from little
shops here and there throughout the region.
At the moment.
I've got a lot of chamomile and kale, a lot,
and we've got cabbages and broad beans going
really strong at the moment as well.
The plan is we've got some herb plants, we're
going to plant them to get their roots down
so that Eden can be growing large amounts
of sage, the chefs can never have enough of
those, you know, some of those herbs and some
for herself and then we've got a few seedlings
to plant.
But really, we're sort of still in the prepping
mode of planning what's going where over the
summer.
The reason these state houses had such large
sections is because, you know, that was normal,
even my grandparents generation that was normal
to try and feed yourself out of your backyard.
But yeah, nowadays it's just grass, grass, grass.
Yeah.
So it would be good to see more.
More people doing this.
I would love to see more of these gardens
everywhere.
Yeah, yeah.
Not just the Hutt.
Yeah, all across New Zealand.
It's just enjoyment, there's the food miles,
there's the nutrition.
Yeah, there's so many reasons.
I try and give back to my community as much
as I can.
I've definitely taken quite a bit back to
the Remakery.
Their use is in the cafe.
But a lot of it I give to people who I know
are in need.
To the generosity of Remakery, we're so thankful and
appreciative for all their beautiful cooked kai they
give us that we can distribute that out to
whānau that need kai.
Just be aware that supporting things like
the common unity project are helping support
people like me who didn't realise they'd be
pretty good at something and now they're doing
things to benefit their community as well.
