Mulch ado about fourteen

10 GoodGymers made their way 7.8km to help the Bee Urban in Southwark.

: Wednesday, 13th of March 2019
: Led by Lucy J

Southwark News

This weekend do the double! Saturday morning Emily Mcgovern is going to Hilly Fields parkrun and then scooting the 2.5km over to Telegraph Hill Playclub to help transform their garden space. Find out more and sign up here.
Busy on Saturday? Help put up a polytunnel at Tabard Community Gardens (near Borough station) from 11am. Find out more and sign up here.
Hannah Foote is a hero! She's been doing good since November 2016 and she's about to hit 50 good deeds! Give her a cheer here.
Next week we're cleaning and greening at Galleywall Nature Reserve - it's a 7km run overall. Find out more and sign up here.

That's enough of the business

Last night 10 runners ran 8km to Camberwell Subterranea to spread 2 tonnes of mulch on the raised beds.

Mulch = 'A protective covering (as of sawdust, compost, or paper) spread or left on the ground to reduce evaporation, maintain even soil temperature, prevent erosion, control weeds, enrich the soil, or keep fruit (such as strawberries) clean.'

We left bang on 7pm last night to run the 4km to Camberwell Subterranea to see Barnaby and his two tonnes of mulch! We arrived before Barnaby did and go to work on our secondary mission:

Make a representation of the number of what GoodGym launch we are (14)

Emily got to work with her vision, making an ingenious use of headtorches. Meanwhile Barnaby arrived and I helped him get all the tools and barrows out. Big shout out to Emily for the great photo!

We got to work - shovelling mulch into barrows and then shovelling it back out onto the raised beds outside the bike workshop. It looked like a daunting task on arrival but we finish both bags completely!