Hedge farming in the city

14 Goodgymers helped their local community in Southwark
Jessica Roper
Becca Willcox
Andrew Furlow
Beth Hoskins
Neil Macey
Isabel Sloman
Joelle Chalmer
Melissa
Stuart Bonathan
Zoe
Trina
Bill Hutchinson
Steven Hoggins
Jo Swift
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Southwark

Wednesday 15th June 2016

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14 runners crossing a borough (again) to clear hedges & weeds at Surrey Docks Farm.

Finally, the rain cleared and the mugginess came back for us to run across into the shadow of Canary Wharf to the lovely farm. After bobbing and weaving down Rye Lane and waiting for a lot of green men, we eventually, and rather sweatily, made it to meet Gemma. She had already gotten to work with a chain saw on the hedge along the Thames Path and we were to clear it.

Lots of glove matching and hoeing later and we were filling wheelbarrows with green stuff. Zoe took the challenge of jumping on the compost heap to crush it down.

Trampoline time!

After almost no time, we had to pack away. Luckily, we got to walk passed all of the animals we'd seen last time. The tallest goats in the world were hiding. too much height pressure the beautiful calf was looking much more grown up. Esther, the pregnant sow was due to give birth on Monday. We watched with baited breath for her to...

go to the toilet...

No piglets tonight but it was still lovely to see all of the animals and work somewhere so amazing in the shadow of the concrete jungle.

A few press ups, tricep dips and wall sits later and we were back at Old Spike.

A decent crew of us made our way over to The Rye pub for some food and much needed fluids.

Lovely stuff GoodGym Southwark. Until next week.



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Paul Becker
Paul Becker (he/him)

Thu 16th Jun 2016 at 5:21pm

Loving the urban/rural photography contrast. Nice work, GG Southwark!

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