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3 Goodgymers helped their local community in Cardiff
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Michael
Darren
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Cardiff

Saturday 10th October 2020

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After our false start last week with a cancelled attempt it was a joy to see a sunny Saturday morning, Mikey, Nathan and Darren arranged to meet up at Global Gardens. There was already a community mission going on there and Charlotte was celebrating her 50th good deed, something that we just couldn't ignore. After congratulations had been made and we had said our hellos we set off to our mission at StarGarAllot community garden a good 5km away.

Stargarallot Community Garden was created in 2018 by local residents as a community garden network covering the STAR area of Cardiff. Since we last visited back in January, they have been busy growing and distributing healthy vegetables to Oasis and Tremorfa community pantry.

Recently they have been awarded a Keep Wales Tidy Food Growing Development Package and today our job was to help to clear the ground ready for a new accessible path.

With all of this in mind we ran at light speed to get to them.

Upon arrival we were greeted by the wonderful Camilla, she showed us some of the changes since we were last there, this included the new fancy hand washing station. So all geared up, with tools in newly washed hands, we set to work.

After several wheelbarrows full, lots of forking, digging and laughing, we could see the start of a pathway. After checking in with Camilla and another of the volunteers, who had now arrived with coffee and protein bars, we started on the next phase. We now had to level off some land next to the greenhouses and lay three new slabs so that we could move the liquid fertiliser into a more accessible spot.

It's safe to say that we were very careful when it came to moving the fertiliser, no-one fancied running home covered in any of it!

After a good couple of hours, we were finished, and by now plenty of volunteers had turned up for their day of learning about apple juicing and testing their knowledge about apples. After a quick breather, and an apple muffin, we said our goodbyes as they thanked us for our time.

Well Done All


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Stargarallot
Helping people in the Star (Splott, Tremorfa,Adamsdown and Roath) area grow healthy food learn and share gardening skills plant trees and help tackle climate emergency and food poverty.

We have a community garden at Star hub and a community allotment at Pengam Pernanent . We run workshops and a children's holiday gardening club.

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Darren

Sun 11th Oct 2020 at 3:18pm

Nice report Mikey. Fab fun at this mission and a good load of work done.

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