Nāianei
Who we are today
We dream of a world where communities are connected, empowered and activated to exercise sovereignty over their food systems, starting in our own backyard of Te Puni (Epuni Fairfield), Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai (Lower Hutt).
Central to this is a re/connection with whenua (land) and guidance by mātauranga Māori and local history of the land. We trust that listening to and connecting to the whenua (land) is vital and enriching for all people.
Common Unity Project Aotearoa is a registered charity and well known community hub. We empower our community to grow, connect, regenerate, learn and remember. We celebrate the abundance of gifts in our community and work hard to address challenges that affect us all.
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The Rātā Rangatahi programme offers rangatahi opportunities & experience in our circular food hub and community whare over the raumati holidays and beyond.
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Naku te rourou, nau te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi.
With your basket and my basket the people will live.Urban Kai Farms are transforming lawns at homes, schools and institutions into intensely productive urban farms across the Hutt Valley. We are creating a local ecosystem that grows employment and increases access to local, organically grown, nutrient-dense fruit and vegetables.
Te Awakairangi ki Tai is blessed with some of the most fertile soils in Aotearoa, and used to be covered in market gardens that fed the entire Wellington region. The soil under our feet is teeming with life and possibility and Urban Kai Farms are working to reconnect us with the abundance our soil can provide.
As we grow food, we grow resilience in our community. We provide education programmes to build skills and increase knowledge of food waste and the environmental consequences of mainstream food production. Together, we experience better physical and emotional health by connecting with nature through growing kai.
Together, we farm.
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"Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body; it's truly love."
—GIADA DE LAURENTIIS
Powered by the sun and local people, our off-grid, purpose-built community kitchen provides beautiful, globally inspired food made from locally grown produce to our Café, the community through donated meals and caters for functions of all sizes.
The Remakery Kitchen is dedicated to ensuring our community is fed through the restoration of our local food system. It celebrates the talents of our cooks and chefs, our ethnic diversity, and our locally grown produce.
If you’re organising a catering event—whether it’s a conference lunch, a wedding feast, or a team-building event that needs the best cakes you've ever eaten—or if you’re keen to learn from these exceptional cooks, The Remakery Kitchen wants to talk to you!
Together, we cook.
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Affordable, quality, local, healthy food delivered to our community.
The Remakery Grocer is a low-cost, plastic-free grocery store based at The Remakery. We purchase wholesale and pass on low prices to our customers.
Alongside reducing costs we also reduce waste. The Remakery Grocer doesn't provide single-use plastic shopping bags or containers, instead we encourage our customers to reuse and repurpose what they already have, bring in your own containers to refill and skip the plastic.
Together, we save.
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Come on in and taste a brew that’s “crema personified”
Come and visit our café at The Remakery and enjoy delicious coffee supreme coffee and nutritious food made in The Remakery Kitchen. Sit amongst our gardens, in the lounge, or grab a book and cosy up in the library, we even have a space for little ones to play and create.
Our kitchen team has been developing an incredible café menu which not only focuses on our vegetarian principles, but also caters for gluten-free and vegan options.
Our café is an awesome place to volunteer if you’re wanting to get a bit of hospitality experience, or contribute to our mission. We provide on-the-job experience for aspiring baristas.
Together, everybody eats.
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Beautiful things come together, one stitch at a time.
The Sew Good Collective re-loves and re-purposes old fabrics and textiles into brand new useful and beautiful things.
Our goals are to engage our community into sewing and create upskilling opportunities. The Sew Good Collective gets together weekly at The Remakery and is always welcome to people who want to give sewing a go.
We welcome donations of quality natural fibre fabrics, machines and equipment. Home sewists and corporate groups are welcome to come and sew with us, to learn or teach new skills.
The Sew Good Collective range can be found at The Remakery Grocer and our online store.
Together, we sew.
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We feed the bees, the bees feed us.
The Beeple Honey Collective is a sweet bit of local goodness that supports New Zealand's struggling bees so they can, in turn, feed our community's hungriest tums.
Beeple puts hives into backyards and community apiaries around the Wellington region.
Profits from honey sales are returned to urban food projects and to further develop the Beeple Honey Collective.
We put 40 hives out into community during our first season, pollinating sweet goodness from Upper Hutt to Island Bay and everywhere in between.
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Help us grow food—give us your veggie scraps!
Compost is an essential ingredient for growing nutritious kai. By making it ourselves, it means we can create a more closed-loop system and not need to buy fertiliser or compost from outside sources. To help us with this, we’ve launched a compost collection hub at The Remakery. We take up to 20 litres a week from our community compost contributors and turn it into nutrient-rich compost, this in turn, helps us grow nutrient-dense kai.
We run monthly compost workshops at our Compost Hub and invite the wider community to come along and learn the basics of composting, troubleshoot any issues, learn about our circulatory system and see how we not only farm produce, but microbes and fungi too. These are usually held the first Saturday of the month.
And perhaps the most important part of our work is learning and doing things together. We envision the Compost Hub as a place to meet other people, learn about the food web, and share skills. We can all support each other to change a problem into a solution.
Together, we compost.