Today's Mission brought six GoodGymers to Horsenden Farm on a sunny, fresh and frosty morning. Steph, Mohamed, Christos, Sevan, Kash and Kymm met at the Horsenden Farm courtyard, warming hands up at the fireplace a little before being greeted by the Friends of Horsenden Hill team.

After making our way to the changing shed, two tasks were briefed for the 2 hours on the farm, with some nice and mucky work clearing the old hay from the barn, as well as spreading straw evenly across the fields. Kash, Steph, Christos and Kymm were happy to get mucky, first changing shoes for good old wellies and then grabbing a pitchfork and wheelbarrow each. Supervised by the farm cat, Billy, the team made light work clearing the barn of old hay and stacking it all into a nice and tall heap outside. Kymm nicely created an extra treat, topping a pile of hay in the wheelbarrow with a chunky cow pat! The barn was now ready for fresh hay to be laid out for the cattle to come back to.

Meanwhile, Sevan and Mohamed busily spread out the straw evenly across the field, helping to spread seeds out for the wild flower season, and for ponies to enjoy eating later on in the year.

With our GoodGymers making light work of these tasks and after the barn was cleared of hay, the team were chaperoned to a huge compost pile that needed turning and moving from one plot to another, to help with aeration. One word of caution before we get started... Mind the RATS! And apparently... Potatoes!?

We finished just in time for another lovely Horsenden Farm wood-fired pizza for a team lunch complete with coffee and craft beers... Another successful task at Horsenden Farm!