Our second longer run for the season, we visited Stargarallot once more to finish off with some green work. Cyclists and walkers meeting us there, and the runners heading over from out City Centre start location. A beautiful evening for active travel and some outdoors volunteering, recharging the batteries for the rest of the week in work.

Today’s tasks were weeding the pathway before it became out of control, giving the wilding area a edge it to stop it encroaching onto the pathway, removing an old cover and putting to the side and finally clearing some dreaded bindweed and bramble from an area that should be utilised as food growing space.

Join us next week as we head on up to Global Gardens to help clear a space for a new children's activity.

A return to our friends at StarGarAllot community allotments this week, one of our slightly longer runs so we had some walkers meeting there, cyclists as well as the usual runners from the City.

It was a lovely evening for a run, and time for a nice chat as we made our way to the task. We picked up some people on the way who wanted a shorter run and then met everyone else outside the gate for the task. We were met at the gate by the task organiser, Camilla, who then walked us around the site explaining what needed doing this evening. Our tasks were;

1. To move a large bench from the shed to a new position that had been cleared in the shade.
2. To clear the area under the bench just moved
3. To put a picnic bench in the area we cleared so more volunteers could sit for lunch.
4. To clear a rather large grass, which was in the way of a pathway
5. To move another bench to an area overlooking the trees and potentially a nice sunset.

It as going to be some good lifting and exercise tonight, so plenty of team work going on. The grass turned out to be the most difficult of tasks as four of us with forks still struggled to lift it - sweat and grunts and it finally gave in as we dragged it away to the compost heap.

Some apple juice, a few grapes and bananas and it was time to leave. We will be returning next week to get on with some actual gardening, so get signed up here and we will see you there.

On a busy week in Cardiff three goodgymers got together to help out at Samye. They have some rather special visitors next week and so it's time for some sprucing up to be done.

But before we go on, we have to say a WELCOME to our newest member Anna, lovely having you along with us today and hope to see you back again soon on another task.

Our task tonight was to look around in awe at the transformation in the back yard to the wonderful new biodiverse garden that it is - with.......the great new pond that we helped to dig on our last visit. Now to some actual volunteering, and back to the front. Our task tonight, to varnish the benches all over to help give them a fresh new look and protect them over winter. We had a good old chat about life and the World as we made the seating look ready for the event next week, and just like that we were done.

Join us next week as we make our first of two trips to help at StarGarAllot community allotments here