Oxford

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Scores on the (new) doors

20 GoodGymers made their way to help the The Children's Allotment in Oxford.

  • Anwen Greenaway
  • Lorenzo
  • Rachael H
  • Bethan Greenaway
  • Ruth
  • Sarah
  • Sarah Morris
  • Holly
  • Ben Foster
  • Georgia Mason
  • Milly Haven
  • Anna Bosher
  • Hattie Elvins
  • Matty Holder
  • Vanessa Del Campo Perez
  • Meysam
  • Aaron Scott
  • Lasha
  • Isaac
  • Claire
 
Wednesday, 30th of June 2021
 
Led by Bethan Greenaway

Another fabulous session completed at The Children's Allotment. This week we were able to admire the new polytunnel, complete with lovely new doors. It's been a long time coming, thanks to COVID, and it looks (and smells) brilliant.

As usual we had a warm welcome from Alice and her blackboard of tasks. This week the focus was on weeding, clearing grass cuttings, watering various areas of the allotment and laying down weed membrane and woodchip (our favorite!), and clearing the mud and weeds from the concrete path.

In true Goodgym fashion we all got stuck in. Long grass was raked and collected, bind weed was untangled from trees, strawberries and herb plants, raised beds, trees and grass seed was watered and various bits of rubble and rubbish was loaded into the skip. We also managed to lay down lots of weed membrane and started on the wood chipping to hopefully keep more weeds at bay!

It is always remarkable what a team of Goodgymers can achieve in just over an hour and we even managed to sample strawberries from a bed which we planted up in April!

A big well done to Matty on your tenth good deed - maybe the quickest new to 10 we've had so far, and thanks for your education on bugs!

Welcome to Aaron, Isaac and Claire. It was so lovely to meet you all and we hope to see you all again soon!

Report written by Bethan Greenaway


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