Dried off from flyering we were joined by six other goodgymers for an indoor session as the weather was too treacherous for goat mountain escapades.

It was lovely to also welcome Bethan for the first time this evening!

We were tasked with doing something very unique this evening, making seed bombs out of clay, mud and soil for the farm to distribute at a community event.

A small group ventured into the woods to retrieve some soil before heading in. We then had to remove twigs and worms from the soil before mixing the soil with clay and water and eventually the seeds.

We then rolled these into small ping pong sized balls before removing them for safe keeping.

We were tasked with making 60 but Abby counted 217!!

Definitely a unique task and we were even rewarded with cake 🍰

We were back out again this evening helping to deliver some of the 10,000 leaflets Tom has for us to distribute.

The weather was torrential and as we are distributing more leaflets we are finding we have to walk considerably further to make it back to the farm in time!

We were joined by Laura for the first time who did an awesome job braving the elements for a first task!

Most amusing part of this task was spotting some grafitti marked Wilson. Who knew we had banksy amongst taskforce? 😂We got back to the farm with a little time to spare before the main task 😊

We were back at YMCA this evening to tackle the garden with Ellie, Steph and Leszek seeing the wonders of the YMCA garden for the first time.

We arrived slightly early so fit in a little more in the time available. Leszek got to work quickly clearing the litter in the left hand corner whilst I focused on hacking back the big bushes / trees encroaching on the public highway.

Ellie did an excellent job giving the grass a short back and sides and Steph chopped and moved into bin bags all the branches needing taking away.

Sarah found many random items whilst clearing the best one of which was a phone!

The session went quickly with eight bags of rubbish accumulated before heading home. We look forward to returning next month 😊

Goodgym Southampton is one year old today!! 🎉🎂

To celebrate we went to city farm with an army of goodgymers ready and eager to help with whatever task Tom may have had in mind for us. We were pretty sure it was going to be more goat mountain shenanigans but were shocked when farm volunteer Danni mentioned that this evening we would be helping put all the animals to bed and meeting them all by means of celebration and thankyou.

We were thoroughly spoilt - getting to feed the sheep and goats, getting walked by the new pygmy boys, putting the chickens and ducks to bed and meeting all the reptiles from the blue tongued skink to the gecko and giant african land snail.

After our tour of the farm we were kindly given use of the community room to celebrate our birthday with cake and drinks kindly supplied by Energise Me and Ellie.

We were also delighted to see Paul and Simon back with us after last weeks litter pick and to welcome Aimee for her first goodgym task.

Its been an incredible year with 157 tasks(!!!). Heres to seeing what year two brings!