Animal Weed

Having survived a painful fall off my bike on Saturday evening, then an alcohol-fuelled night out until 4 in the morning, I managed to stagger over to Stepney to meet GoodGym Gilda and other helpers at the regular Stepney City Farm volunteering session. Our task was to weed between allotment plots belonging to locals, making sure to remove nettles, sticky weeds and bindweed, while retaining strawberry plants and attractive flowers. We were instructed not to touch the plots themselves, apart from one which had clearly not been attended to for some time. The nettles were protuding across to public pathways and needed to be removed to prevent visiting children getting a nasty sting. As a bonus, we happened to meet GG Tower Hamlets legend Tracey, taking her grandchild and friend of GoodGym Mali to see the pigs and goats. Congratulations on reaching 200 good deeds Tracey!