Benjamin Kiely


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Benjamin Kiely
Benjamin Kiely signed up to a community mission.

Sat 27th Nov 2021 at 12:00pm

Community Gardening @ Thorlands

Will allow the community garden to flourish and for local residents to enjoy the natural space and food that is grow there

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Benjamin Kiely
Benjamin Kiely signed up to a community mission.

Sat 4th Dec 2021 at 12:00pm

Community Gardening @ Thorlands

Will allow the community garden to flourish and for local residents to enjoy the natural space and food that is grow there

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Benjamin Kiely
Benjamin Kiely went on a community mission

Sat 20th Nov 2021 at 12:00pm

Fartichokes 🥔

Southwark Report written by Sam Lefevre (he/him)

It was all happening today at Thorlands!

Firstly, we had all the new GoodGymers turn up early! Welcome to Lucy and Claire who showed up after a community mission that they were looking forward to got cancelled only 24 hours prior. Yet, they were keen to get involved with GoodGym and try an alternative way of getting active on the weekends. They made the right choice and decided to join in on the fun at Thorlands! Laura was back for more after her first Good Deed was last week....yet, she does live down the road and this is technically her local community garden/food club. 😜 Tilly and Benjamin are also considered new as this was their first time at Thorlands, however, they already had a good deed under their belts. So, they knew what we're all about; we "get fit whilst doing good". Our GoodGymers regulars, Jessie, Nathan and Rebecca arrived with their bikes just as Simon was giving his welcome speech.

Where's the hoe? The hoe hoe...

After Simon explained to the newbies about the history of Thorlands and the overarching vision of an urban biodiversity circular economy (now, I'm just throwing words all over the place), we gathered the tools we needed and headed into the "Kitchen" and "Forest" Gardens. We split the team into two.

Buddleia bashing and bind weed banishing!

"A" Team: Continued in the Forest Garden. Nathan with his team of Lucy and Laura took on clearing the Forest garden, which Nathan is commited to with his trusty hoe (I'm talking about the tool...). The team were bashing at the roots and clearing all the greenery into three massive piles by the end of the session.

"B" Team: Various tasks in the Kitchen Garden. Sam delegated various tasks at different points in time. To start with Claire gave the old secateurs and loppers a good clean with some vanishing oil. Tilly started off with the gentle task of raking the autumn leaves that surrounded the Kitchen garden to the leaf pile where slowly it is making the leaves into a mulch. Benjamin, Jessie and Rebecca started clearing the backend of the Kitchen garden in preparation of straw and woodchip to get placed on top in order to grow more vegetables. As the hour and a half went by, Jessie and Claire started to harvest the Jerusalem Artichokes and Tilly switched to help clear and chop down the buddleia.

Noticing we had less than 5 minutes left on the clock, there was a frantic end where we were putting all the cleared greens into a compost pile, but it had to be layered with leaves in a technique to help produce more fertile compost. After gathering the tools, we had the pleasure from Simon to take some Jerusalem Artichokes home in a doggy bag. The benefits of volunteering in a garden food club.....you occasionally get to take the produce home! We were given some warning about eating too many Jerusalem Artichokes...you might have guessed it. 😉

Next weekend, we'll be finishing off what we started in the Kitchen garden and putting down the straw, cardboard and woodchip. The Forest garden clearance will also carry on. If you are available and keen for more, sign up here

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Benjamin Kiely
Benjamin Kiely signed up to a community mission.

Sat 20th Nov 2021 at 12:00pm

Community Gardening @ Thorlands

Will allow the community garden to flourish and for local residents to enjoy the natural space and food that is grow there

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Benjamin Kiely
Benjamin Kiely earned their community cape by completing their first community mission. 🤩

Saturday 2nd October 2021

Community Cape

Community Cape

Benjamin Kiely earned their community cape by completing their first community mission.

Benjamin completed a community mission. Instead of watching TV or lying in bed, Benjamin was out there making their community a better place to be. For making that choice they have earned the community cape.

RachelSarah Beck
Benjamin Kiely
Benjamin Kiely has done their first good deed with GoodGym. 😎

Saturday 2nd October 2021

GoodGym Runner

GoodGym Runner

Benjamin Kiely has done their first good deed with GoodGym.

Benjamin is a now a fully fledged GoodGym runner. They've just run to do good for the first time. They are out there making amazing things happen and getting fit at the same time.

DianeSarah Beck
Benjamin Kiely
Benjamin Kiely went on a community mission

Sat 2nd Oct 2021 at 12:30pm

There wasn’t much wind but there was a bit of g(rain)

Lambeth Report written by Sarah Beck

Ten of us braved the rain to spend an hour at Brixton Windmill on Saturday helping with a variety of jobs.

Shout out to Dottie and Benjamin who were at their first Goodgym missions 🙌

We split into three groups for 3 different tasks: 1. planting vegetable seedlings including cabbage and spring onions in the vegetable patch 2. planting hyacinth and daffodil bulbs alongside the windmill which will look lovely in the spring 3. cutting back brambles at the front of the park and a spot of litter picking

After nearly an hour we were done and headed off home. Hope to see everyone again soon!

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