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7 GoodGymers made their way 3.5km to help the Grow Cardiff and Grow Cardiff in Cardiff.
- Tuesday, 7th of May 2024
- Led by Michael
A wonderful light evening, sunshine and a brand new project to help - It must be a goodgym Tuesday.
Tonight was our first visit to Grow Cardiff's newest project at Grange Medical Centre, the space that they have been given is very large with great potential......We will certainly be having a return trip here. Grow Cardiff have been going since June 2015, and have some really inspiring community gardens set up around the city.
Their mission is to inspire people to use community gardening not only to grow fantastic vegetables, herbs, trees and flowers, but through this to build caring and inclusive communities where everyone can thrive.
With such goals, goodgym are a great group to get involved and help.
It was a shorter run than usual, but with so much to do the added volunteering time was useful. Our jobs for the evening were,
- remove the layer of manure from the garden and move it to the compost heap
- build a compost heap
- remove all grass and weeds from the seating and pathways
- litter pick
- lay cardboard and woodchip on pathways
We had nice new gloves ready to wear and all the tools needed for the jobs, so it was straight to work. We got to meet a few of the locals who were also going to get involved with the project, nice to see the project already gaining volunteers. After 40 minutes of shovelling, wheelbarrow moving, pulling of plants and laying of woodchip it was time to step back and see the results of our efforts. There was a very visible difference to the plot today, and a great feeling of satisfaction.
Thanks to all, Grow Cardiff for task and you lovely volunteers to help spread the goodgym joy.
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