Common Unity Project Aotearoa

Kia ora and welcome to the Common Unity Project Aotearoa.

We’re a community-based, urban village project that grows food, skills, leadership and enterprise with local families in Lower Hutt. We invite you to collaborate with us to co-create a more resilient, inclusive Aotearoa. Our vision is to grow vibrant and resilient local communities together and our mission to to provide a model of community sharing and resilience which can be emulated around New Zealand.

Our Project started as a pilot in 2012 to teach Epuni Primary School’s 110 pupils and their families how to grow and cook their own food, by using an acre of land at the school to create a strong local food network. What has grown from this is mighty. We are beginning to create real change in a community where change is a challenge.

We have created an award winning sewing cooperative, a honey enterprise that educates, employs and returns honey to communities around the region, and a hub to assist community in creating their own enterprises and small businesses. We run a network of urban farms providing local, organic produce to local people in need and via Lower Hutt marae which are supporting whānau with emergency food parcels.

Our on-site Unity Kitchen is powered by the sun and local people. This purpose-built, off-grid community kitchen is fully equipped to produce food which celebrates the talents of our cooks and chefs, the diversity of our community and cuisines, and our locally grown produce.

All funds donated will go to paying our staff and gifting The ReMakery to the community as a place of learning, workshops, education and togetherness. A place where dreams can come true.

Please help us model a new way to grow and change the communities we live in, from the inside out.