Stu Belcher
Oxford
Doing good since February 2019
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205runs
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Rain stopped play
We did not garden - let's do it another time!
A lovely walk and pizza!
Thank you for having us Anwen xx
Oxford
Oxford visits Banbury
A spot of parkrun tourism for our small but perfectly formed group this morning.
We ran round the wiggly route at Spiceball Park accompanied by Isla and Poppy the Puppy.
We then retired to Anwen's for pizza, a stroll and no gardening - blame the rain!
Lovely to meet Kim. Hope to see you again soon!
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Pizza and gardening at Anwen’s place
After our jaunt to Banbury Parkrun we are invited back to Anwen’s for a spot of gardening, sitting on jazzy rabbit chairs, meeting the famous Ollie and Super Duper Luca and eating pizza and snacks!!
Transport will be organised nearer the time but there are train, bus AND car options.
Please bring gardening gloves and a lunch contribution. Tools ,snacks, cats and a toddler will be provided!
Exact address to be supplied nearer the time.
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Happy as a pig in..well rotted manure?
Last night we finally got an opportunity to complete our rescheduled 3rd birthday task!
The storms stopped us making it to the allotment site when we had planned in February, but you can't keep a team of GoodGymers away too long.
Since we had time to kill at the start of the task due to some truly awful traffic holding up GoodGymers and the van full of tools we had a bit of fun during the register with a silly question/ice breaker. So, this week's conversation starter for 10: What's your 2nd favourite flavour of soup? Thanks to Katie's student for that one!
Harvest at Home has community growing initiatives across Oxfordshire, and the latest site at South Ward Allotments is destined to be an experimental growing space. Here they will show people how to grow their own food and also experiment with crops which might be suitable for growing in the weather conditions we can expect in 5, 10 and 15 years into the future. It pays to be prepared for the effects of climate change.
Despite our efforts last year, and lots of hard work since then by the Cherwell Collective/Harvest at Home team, there's still plenty to do to get the plot organised. We jumped to work unloading the van of tools and raised beds then got stuck into the list of jobs. We set the raised beds up in place, shoveled the manure pile to fill the beds and moved large quantities of the rest of it over to the compost bays for storage/further rotting down (going home from GoodGym smelling of manure is a new experience!), Henry did some very thorough strimming work ridding the plot of nettles and long grass, and we also made good in roads into the tangle of bramble - lopping away at brambles which could win prizes for size. We even uncovered and rehomed a sloworm in the manure pile; particularly interesting since they'd come up in conversation on our run over to the task.
Welcome to GoodGym Sophie - hope you enjoyed your first GoodGym experience :-)
Thanks for leading us out of the allotments the scenic route Sam!
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Allotment Clearing for Harvest at Home
Harvest@Home (part of the Cherwell Collective/Cherwell Larder) aims to provide the equipment and skills necessary for people to plant, care for, and harvest their very own produce at home. They are establishing allotments both for teaching/community growing and to grow produce for the Cherwell Larder.
The plot we will be working on tonight is at South Ward Allotments, near Redbridge Park & Ride. The allotments suffered a lot of damage in the winter storms, plus the plot needs further clearing to make it usable for growing. They plan to use the area for some experimental growing projects.
Tasks will include:
* Pulling up old path markings
* Laying down cardboard and woodchip
* Strimming
* Building compost bays
Please bring sturdy gardening gloves.
Meeting Options:
I will be setting off from Falcon Boat Club car park on Meadow Lane at 6pm. If you would like a 1 mile run to our task meet me there.
If running is not your thing you can meet us close to the task. Please meet on the opposite side of the road from the Redbridge Household Waste Recycling Centre at 6:05pm (glamorous, I know!), and we will walk the last stretch as a group.
We are aiming to be at the task location at 6:15pm. It is a bit tucked away past the static caravan park, and through a locked gate, so I highly recommend you meet in one of the above locations rather than going straight to the allotments.
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