A small group met at the end of Harley Grove this evening for a short warm-up before tonight's task. Balancing on the wall, we performed Bulgarian split squats, tricep dips and incline push ups before we headed into charity GET OUT's Food Forest a little further up the road.

(What is GET OUT?

Charity GET OUT uses ‘environmental education to strengthen the connection between Tower Hamlets' young people and the natural world via a programme of outdoor education, surfing and food growing projects').

One by one, GoodGymers joined us and in no time at all we were a sturdy team of 10.

Kieran, our task owner, spent some time telling members a little about the project and the charity, including its relationship to the local school, the recent open day and all the different types of vegetables and herbs in the garden.

With an amazing list of tasks arranged on his 'phone, Kieran proceeded to divide the team into five teams of two. Tasks were very varied, and task selection before description was obligatory! The teams were soon dispatched to all areas of the garden as follows:

• Joel and Grace on tree felling.

• Rosie and Leo on watering.

• Benoît and Sree on polytunnel picking.

• John and Rohan on bed-turning.

• Shrey and Rahul on pond-repair.

It's been a while since we've enjoyed such a variety of tasks, and it was quite something to wander around the garden and see continual activity: problem-solving at its finest, whether tackling the last stubborn cells of a tree trunk or negotiating tape in a toad-infested pond.

As usual it was all go, and the team stuck loyally to all their tasks. No reinforcements for tree-sawing required; no rotation out of plant watering for something new; the joy expressed from pulling up Padrón peppers...The GoodGymers seemed happy.

And then, of course, it was after 8 and we were posing for a final pic with Kieran by the surprisingly well-stocked tool shed. Another fabulous night. Well done team.

Until next time.

Due to flight issues coming back from Spain, Rebecca found herself at Thorlands two weeks in a row! It was also a delight to see the regular Lucie and a newbie to the area, Benoît who cycled all the way from Bethnal Green in East London.

The foursome took on the "Forest" garden since the woodchip delivery didn't arrive on time, the team continued with putting down cardboard, leaf mulch and woodchip to the tunes of summer throwbacks. By the end of the hour (and over the course of many Saturdays), they had covered almost a third of the "Forest" garden. There's more of this to be done to cover the whole area to ensure weeds can't grow and to start anew.

After coming from another Goodgym mission, James was ready to go. He got introduced to the manager on site and given a tour of the site, unfortunately no warm lunch was provided. James went to changing rooms and got a reflective jacket and some steel capped shoes. And much like a foodbank mission, you get a list and have to fill it out, unlike a foodbank it's not individual packages but boxes or trays of stuff, and not in plastic bags but on a pallet. During the 2 hours James did 2 pallets, and both wrapped in clingform and called it a day. No pics were taking on site, so here's a pic of James

Great to have a big turn out for our return to Hackney City farm!!

Day light, great group, physical task and a lot of poo!!

Shifting 50 heavy paving slabs started the day as the lambs cheered us on. Before we loaded and dumped 100's wheelbarrow trips full of dirt and poo to fill what used to be a pond so it is feetile and ready to grow stuff this year!!

Probably 3 tones dumped and a big dent in the project on session one!!

Looking forward to our regular visits over the lighter months to the farm, hope to see you there again soon!