🌳 Gardening at Leith Links Community Croft
The urban community croft at Leith Links aims to encourage and support the people and organisations of Leith to grow food vegetables, and flowers for bees, in urban spaces, in order to improve health and wellbeing, community cohesion and the environment.
🌳 Gardening at Leith Links Community Croft
The urban community croft at Leith Links aims to encourage and support the people and organisations of Leith to grow food vegetables, and flowers for bees, in urban spaces, in order to improve health and wellbeing, community cohesion and the environment.
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About this session
GoodGym Edinburgh is launching!
To kick off our very first GoodGym Edinburgh we will be getting our hands dirty with a gardening task at Leith Links Community Croft.
Our meetup point is Edinburgh Street Food where there will be a secure bag drop and a 15% discount on food and drink available after we get back.
From there we will be running at an inclusive pace down to Leith Links Community Croft for this week's task and running back afterwards (about 2.5km each way)
The community croft is a fantastic project and a real hub for community volunteering and community impact in Leith. We will be helping out with various gardening tasks needing done around the croft and market garden. At the same time we will get to learn about gardening, food growing and the concept of an urban community croft.
This project aims to bring together disparate and isolated members of the Leith community (technically all co-owners of the site) as a harmonious and co-operative family, working together to share their experience and skills, to address each other’s needs, and to raise children in a healthy and responsible way, in touch with nature and the land.
You can find out more about the Leith Links Community Croft at the 'Earth In Common' website: https://www.earth-in-common.org/leith-community-croft
Need more reasons to get involved in GoodGym Edinburgh?
London School of Economics conducted a study with GoodGym for 2 years to understand the benefits to mental health when combining physical exercise and volunteering. The results were described as “extraordinary” by Dr. Chris Krekel, lead researcher on the project.
Measured in 6 outcomes of mental wellbeing GoodGymers were found to have a positive change across all 6 with the boost in life satisfaction the same as observed in someone who escapes unemployment to 6 months of employment. Specifically, the findings show participation in GoodGym:
Increases life satisfaction by 21% Increases worthwhileness by 17% Decreases mental distress by 21% Decreases loneliness by 12% Increases belonging by 27% Increases connectedness by 16%
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What to look out for
Make sure you've read our general guidelines for safety for taking part in a GoodGym session.
This is a GoodGym group run, with the option of walking too. You'll meet other GoodGymers at the start location and run or walk to the task together. If you're worried about any aspect of the session, contact your area activator Dave Entwistle by email at daveentwistle@goodgym.org.
Options are available to run between 5km and 6km in total.
Remember that we will be running or walking to and from the task, so you'll only be running or walking for half this distance in one go.
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