Poly-tunnel vision

4 Goodgymers helped their local community in Southwark
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Southwark

Sunday 26th March 2023

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This rainy morning, Laura, Tori, Sophia and I went to PNK Garden to help build a polytunnel. Hosting us was Lara, founder of PNK Garden, but calling the shots was Lindsay, who had the instructions and the know-how. 👷

We started cautiously, counting through all the pieces and grouping them into sets of pieces that would go together, and then assembling sections together. Another PNK volunteer, Chris arrived just in time, to screw all the parts that we had assembled together, using a power drill.

Once the four "loops" of the polytunnel were up, we could start to see how everything fit together and we worked together to get rest of the frame up. This sometimes involved undoing parts and redoing them, as we learned how the frame was supposed to hold together. We were interrupted twice by well-meaning neighbours who had opinions about how to do it! By then, Tori, Sophia and I were so invested that we decided to stay a bit longer to see the frame to its finish. It was totally worth it; see the end product in the photos!


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PNK Garden
A new community garden in South London

The PNK Garden (pronounced pink) is a community garden in South London. The garden is managed by a non-profit and independent organisation run by volunteers. As such, our resources are very limited but our passion is great. The garden is designed to be accessible to the youngest and eldest of our communities. People of all abilities are welcome in the PNK Garden! No previous gardening experience needed. Join us and make the garden your own.

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Sophia
Tori Jing
Laura Grant
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Laura Grant

Sun 26th Mar 2023 at 10:09pm

Love the aerial shot!

Tori Jing

Sun 26th Mar 2023 at 11:44pm

Applause for all the lovely volunteers!

Sophia
Sophia (Sophie)

Mon 27th Mar 2023 at 8:17pm

We worked well together! Thank you all for your hard work! We have made some progress.