This may have been one of the shortest Super Saturday Missions but it marks the start of something new and exciting for GoodGym Richmond: the adoption of the ‘3 Pigeons Plot’, a flower bed beside the Thames Path in Richmond.

The 🐦🐦🐦 plot is next to what used to be the Three Pigeons pub. The circular flower bed had become a neglected, weedy wasteland until volunteers from the Richmond Society started work on it earlier this year. GoodGym Richmond had already assisted with digging, weeding, composting, and helping to plant bulbs and in the run up to Super Saturday, GG Richmond pitched the idea of ‘sponsoring’ the bed. Todays mission marked the start of work on our very own flower bed.

This Super Saturday 10th Anniversary Mission was necessarily super short, sandwiched between missions in the Deer Park and at Petersham Sea Scouts. Anita provided drinks and breakfast pastries and briefed the team about the work already done by the Richmond Society and their vision for a bee friendly planting scheme.

In just 30 minutes Jenna, Jane, Christina, Laura, Kate, David and Lenka kick-started this amazing new project with weeding, watering and ideas for planting, landscaping and future maintenance.

JP and Salwa swung by on their way to the Petersham mission and added enthusiastic support and further ideas for development (we may be able to erect an insect habitat but sadly not a BBQ deck or an apartment ☹️).

This Mission has wings.