Hydroponic Experts

36 GoodGymers ran 3-6km to help Kentish Town City Farm & Community by Design!

Corrr there was a lot of you last night, absolutely love it! Welcome along to Rebecca and Basil whose first time it was at GoodGym. With Alex and Patrick attending from GG Central I put them on the spot and got them to explain Missions and Coach Runs to us - they are the experts!

In the news this week:

1. Well done to all the Race the Train people from last weekend - amazing times in Wales!
2. We are doing Regents Park 10km next week, sign up here.

After a quick warm up we split into two groups, with Chris leading the Kentish Town City Farm group and myself leading the team to the Calthorpe Project. PLUS Liz & Sophie went off to do a mission, read all about it here.

Farm Report by Steve 'Speed' Coman:

Off we are again to the fantastic Kentish Town City Farm. As soon as we arrived we were given a brief introduction to the farm by Elaine issued with gloves and safety instructions and then set to work.

Goats!

One group cleared a load of corrugated sheets from the goats enclosure and the second fetching huge amounts of scrap wood from the far side of the farm by the railway tracks. This was poetry in motion as the tasks were completed at double speed so the real aim of the evening could be achieved - stroking the goats!

Goodgymers love stroking goats, and the goats seem to like it too. The odd short was nibbled but much stroking was done. After this a quick group photo, and off we sped through the mean streets of Kentish Town to a well deserved stretch and the obligatory libation. Another successful evening in Camden.

Calthorpe Report by PB:

I took a wonderful team of 17 people around the corner to the Calthorpe Project, at one point we had to do a u-turn as I went right instead of left but hey we got there on time! We met Rokiah who manages Community by Design within the Calthorpe Project. She explained all about the amazing environmental sustainability work they are doing and how we can help.

Siphone that!

We had four tasks to do:

1. A team of seven made some acrylic stands for our hydroponic modules working from a template, sawing, drilling, jigsawing and sanding. Good production line guys!
2. Aston and Laura siphoned liquid fertiliser from the spent tanks and watered our log piles to help them break down faster with the extra nitrogen.
3. Kat and CJ shovelled, wheelbarrowed and emptied tons of compost from three piles into the compost pit! Depsite the wasp attack they did very well!
4. A team of five seedlings removed mold from plant pots, replanted trays with seeds and watered them

We said our goodbyes to Rokiah and had no time for intervals, alas! We headed back to Somers Town and met the other group for a stretch before heading to the pub.

Sign up for next week here - see you then!

PB out.