Saturday 4th October
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Report written by StephDucat
After a great lunch at Horseden Farm with fellow Goodgymers, 3 Goodgymers set off through the woods to their next community mission. A small walk of 2km and we met Jatinder from CIC and Joseph joined shortly after. We did not know what to expect today but we were in for a good typical workout reserved for Goodgym. It was their first time for Maxime and Ashley at this urban garden and were impressed by the vineyards, bee hives and the polytunnel and outside area. Today we had the task to clear a section so that new beds can be installed in the near future and enable more planting. As windy day, it was hard to know what layers to keep on, but Steph Ducat as usual was in T-Shirt and then Ashley soon took his layers off due to the workout. Maxime also started to layer off. The clearing was not as easy as you think as we had to get all the roots out : a lot of bramble roots which seemed to be all connected together and never ending underground. "B"root force was the moto for today and we were able to take loads out. We did find different colored roots from wood brown to black and a weird red. Some also had looks of parts of a human : human heart shaped. After a 90 minute session the 3 Goodgymers beat the roots. We all then left to follow our own "roots" back to different occupations.
We're planning to erect a poly-tunnel and growing beds to produce fresh vegetables for local charities.
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