We bought our container in August 2014 from SpaceWise but since then had been waiting until the ground dried out enough for the truck to be able to bring the container through the reserve to the garden site. Our grateful thanks go to Charlotte from SpaceWise for agreeing to store our container at their yard until we were ready to have it picked up.
We also had to save up additional funds to pay for the delivery, so were lucky enough to get a few more newsletter delivery jobs during this period from Massey Birdwood Settler’s Association and Massey Matters. Macrocarpa railway sleepers (4) were bought locally from Central Landscape and Garden Supplies – Swanson. We were very grateful to be given 10% discount on the cost of the sleepers. The wood had plenty of time to dry out as we also bought those in August so they were a bit lighter to carry by the time we needed to transport them!
Freight company Swanson Transport had been down to our site previously to see which vehicle would be required to transport the container and had decided that a 4-wheel drive truck with Hiab would be best. The delivery was scheduled for 9 February at 1pm. Jacqui and Nicole took the sleepers down to the site and positioned them ready for the container. The truck driver did a brilliant job of backing the truck alongside the garden and then swinging the container into place on top of our carefully positioned and leveled sleepers.
Thanks again to the Henderson-Massey Local Board, Massey Matters and Auckland Council, that each contributed part-funding to enable the purchase.
Woodside Community Garden 