Today we went to Tiny Forest in Peckham Rye to take part in their tree survey. We mainly recorded the tree heights and stem diameters, which is useful for the Tiny Forest project so that they can measure amount of carbon stored in the forests. We managed to measure 20 trees in 30 minutes.

And our motivation for the evening was multiple birthday celebrations at Blythe Hill Tavern post-group run but first we needed to tackle the tasks Senior's had in store for us!

It was our last group run in the garden for the year as we'll now be heading indoors on our regular sessions at Senior's.

The tasks for the evening were watering a very specific set of plants, i.e. those that would still bear fruit this year and then moving a big pile of woodchip a short distance to create new paths around the raised beds.

We were done in quite quick time and the woodchip pile was significantly smaller! Next week we're heading to The Albany and don't forget headtorches as it will be dark in the garden.

Probably the best organised skip filling ever! Since the project was completed a couple of years ago, RUSS have accumulated a lot of rubbish that they needed to get rid via a skip. They also needed people who skip and do heavy lifting, there was only one team who could help - GoodGym Lewisham!

First, in went a large quantity of unusable wood. Then, what seemed like, several thousand plastic plant pots were put into columns. Some people - Oli and Steve, excelled at this, some people have poor at spatial relationships and were less good - yes that’s you Paul. The flower pots were placed at the bottom and then the skip and a couple of dozen bags of builders’ rubble more or less filled it.

Meanwhile, Lindsay and Julian bagged up copious quantities of well rotted compost.

Tea and biscuits wrapped things up at the end of an excellent evening.

RUSS is a volunteer-led Community Land Trust dedicated to providing homes that remain affordable in perpetuity. There is more about them here. https://www.theruss.org