Hot day on the farm๐Ÿ”ฅ... Even the pigs were bacon ๐Ÿ˜‚

7 Goodgymers helped their local community in Southwark
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Southwark

Sunday 9th August 2020

Report written by Sam Lefevre (he/him)

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The Surrey Docks Farm summer series continued with our third Sunday in a row helping out Rachel and her team. There's one left to go, next Sunday, it's currently full.... But watch out for last minute spots from drop-outs.

7 GoodGymers met up outside the farm gates in the blazing heat; slowly roasting away in the surprisely hot summer's day. Most walked over, one ventured on bike and another person crazily ran over.

Rachel had set out three tasks: wood organisation, bagging up manure and the continuation of weeding in the "Plot to shop" area.

Our first time GoodGymers, Angela and Daniel took on the wood organisation with Richard, who is racking up the Good Deeds this month with his 12th in the first 9 days. They had the task of taking all of the abandoned wood (in all shapes and sizes) out of the pile that they were gathering in and organise them into different sizes, so that it would be more managable in the future.

Abigail jumped straight at the opportunity to get stuck into the manure task and slowly, but surely Jenny joined in to help. Bagging 4 bags of manure was the minimum requirement of what they needed to do and anything else would be seen as bonuses.... Of course they bagged double that amount! ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿผ

Karen started continuing with the weeding in the "Plot to shop" area whilst Sam dipped in and out to help as he made sure everyone was getting along and making sure he got a couple of photos in for this report ๐Ÿ˜œ

An hour and a half zoomed by and Rachel called us over to treat us with some goat cuddling.... Yet, first we had to sweep and shovel their ๐Ÿ’ฉ however, the reward was worth it ๐Ÿ

All in all, we were treated to a great session (as per usual) when we visit the farm! All smiley faces all around ๐Ÿ˜Š


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Surrey Docks Farm
Surrey Docks Farm is free to enter educational farm on the Thames, London.

Surrey Docks Farm is run by a charity and provides education for school children, young people and adults with learning difficulties. Our work helps with essential maintenance and helps them keep the farm operating.

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Attendees
Karen W
Sam Lefevre
Richard
Abigail Burgess
Daniel Montesinos-Donaghy
Angela Timoshenko
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Greenwich runner

Mon 10th Aug 2020 at 8:12am

Thanks Sam! Great report and great task :)

Sam Lefevre
Sam Lefevre (he/him)

Mon 10th Aug 2020 at 9:10am

Always a pleasure Jenny! The struggles of finding a pun for the report title, but the rest is a breeze! Thanks for coming out and joining... Tasks like these hardly need any convincing ๐Ÿ˜‰ see you on the next one ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ