Today we had a big turn out of volunteers and interested onlookers at ReMake Estate; Jillian (with a tray of vegan nut bars) and her friend Grant came down to help, along with Zanny’s sister Anna, Salem (Temporary Services), Lora (Mess Hall), Kristie who we met at the MJ memorial and her two kids Arianna and Jayden, Nathyn, whom we met at the MJ Memorial came by and wrote a press release for the launch, a woman from CDOP, Robert and his son Robert Jnr, the airbrush guys, pitched in for a while along with Kim and Jonathan from CDOP dropping by and a range of other curious onlookers and helpers.
Luckily for us Lora bought a wheel barrow and some shovels as the hay and the soil arrived and there was much shoveling to do to lay out a range of garden beds. We were lucky too with the rain – we had asked Jimmy, the guy who lives opposite if we could water the garden beds from his tap as our rain harvester has not had time to fill up yet, but in the end it rained just as we were finishing up the biggest beds making this unnecessary. Jimmy has also kindly allowed us to us the power from his house to run a projector to show our film at the launch.
Many people came past the house curious as to its bright yellow colour and all the activity going on. Some guys came past on horses (true urban cowboys) and a big bunch of kids hung around checking out what was going on. Many flyers for the opening were handed out and by the end of the day there were five garden beds laid out and some old tires and other smaller beds filled with soil and hay. Excitingly, a simple scaffold had also gone up and work was started on the mural by Higher Art.
