Hot on my hills

32 Goodgymers helped their local community in Lambeth
Katie Welford
Keera
Rebecca
Zara
Emma Blackburn
John Hunter
Kate Dunford
Steve Jenkins
Richard Jansen
Mallik
Sophie King
Tom
Reanna Vernon
Alice Clerkin
Beth Hoskins
Anna Howarth
Melissa Kennedy
Lucy Ranson
Sarah Evans
Tom Benson
Freyja Winterson
Rebecca
James Kerry-Barnard
Sarah
Megan Darby
Ruth Taylor
Removed User
Paul Tait
Michael Welsh
Alex Feuchtwanger
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Lambeth

Tuesday 13th June 2017

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32 excellent runners do some serious gardening at Ruskin community garden before tackling a hill pyramid session. Then we ate cake

What a lovely evening! 32 wonderful GoodGymmers, old and new alike, celebrated Tom Hunter's 100th good deed with a lovely run to Ruskin Park, where the community garden needed our help. In the introduction Katie reflected on her first year at the helm of Lambeth - 1597 attendances = 798 hours or 33.3 whole full days of volunteering. IMMENSE! Well done team Lambeth.

The park is a couple of km away and when we arrived, Paula had many tools at the ready and we got to work. We had people turning the compost, others gave the big tree a haircut. We had a group of edgers, making the beds all tidy, like and also some excellent weeders amongst the tomato plants. Others collected all the garden waste and delivered it to the compost area. It was a well oiled machine that in 20-minutes had done so much it was hard to believe.

I can't believe it! Said Paula. 'You better believe it!' Said Lambeth

Then it was off for a nice hill pyramid session. The slow slope looked friendly at first, but after 7 laps up it, it turned into a veritable mountain climb. Everyone did an excellent job, however, and it was back to base for some lovely stretches and some brownies to celebrate John and Steve's 30th birthdays, which happened this week. Plus a trip to the pub for a well earned pint. Lovely stuff!


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Ruskin Park Community Garden
A source of education and enthusiasm for growing vegetables!

Ruskin Park Community Garden encourages inner city gardening to reduce the carbon output involved in food production and transport. At their weekly dig days, people can learn how to grow veg by doing. Their ethos is sustainability – reduce, reuse recycle – and inclusiveness – we want garden users to reflect the diversity of the neighbourhood. Harvested food is shared among the gardeners at each dig.

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