Four Goodgymmers and an honorary four-legged Goodgymmer headed to Grow for Life's walled garden in Newton St Loe, in response to a shout for help to prepare for their open day. On arrival, Jo and Jer were tasked with moving an ENORMOUS pile of woodchip to make way for some new compost bays. Meanwhile, Ruth, Jane and Ted were dispatched round the village to deliver open day invitations to all the local houses. Once back at the garden, Jer took charge of building the compost bays out of Grow-for-Life favourite, pallets - ably assisted by Ruth, who proved skilled at finding the elusive end of the wire used to hold the structure together. Jo demonstrated their new-found dry stone walling skills, building a retaining wall for the steep slope at the bottom of the site and Jane got her weight training in by shifting 240kg of bentonite clay out of Wayne's trailer.

Overall, a satisfying and sunny mission. Grow for Life's open day is next week, on 17th and 18th May - do feel free to stop by, the garden is looking lovely. We'll be back with them on 29th June.

Goats, pigs, miniature horses and Goodgymers got together on Saturday for a fun time at the farm.

Loading wheelbarrows full of yummy leftovers of pruned plants to drop off in the goat enclosure for some great underfoot food. Meyrick got inside the goat shelter to lay their hay bedding.

Helen fed the huge pig in the next door enclosure who was eyeing up the hay.

Next job was to load up the wheelbarrows with something much less desirable....manure! Jane, Stephen, Emily and Meyrick wheel their manure down to the horse enclosure only to find out that the farm had mislaid the key for the gate! So one by one, they lifted the wheelbarrows of muck over the gates being careful not to get covered! Then off down to the vegetable garden to deposit the manure for the vegetable growers!

Another job done for the lovely team at the farm followed by an enjoying cafe stop for some refreshments :)

It was the morning of Storm Kathleen, and although she was a safe distance away from Bath the weather was gusty and epic.

Three GoodGymmers showed up looking windswept and interesting to our now regular slot at Bath City Farm to help, with our usual gusto and enthusiasm. Aaron Aaron, Jane Jane and Meyrick Meyrick arrived to what was a hectic and incredibly busy Farm.

A multitude of families had showed up to what we learned was Bath City Farm's Spring Fayre, replete with stalls providing home grown goods and fun (splat the rat, face painting and chicken run for example) and I'm not sure they had been prepared for how popular the day was going to be.

As a result, their ability to provide us with work to do was somewhat impaired, but we helped where we could. Our timing was quite handy though, they were just about to pack up (the Fayre having been running since early morning), so we mucked in and helped clear up where we could.

We were also, with time remaining, able to fully water one of their polytunnels before we left. Many thanks to the team for being proactive to find work despite the fact that all the staff were too busy to supervise is as they normally would.

But that's what we do isn't it?

6 Goodgymers headed to Genesis to help sort a variety of donations into fancy products and practical products. Some products were more obvious than others, whilst others, we had to guess the object in an attempt to classify it!

It took us just one hour to work through a mountain of boxes to sort into crates ready for other charities.