We were 5 runners and riders plus Brian and Ben from the Edible Forest.

Well done to Jacquetta on her 2nd mission with GoodGym and managing to cut down an entire dead tree which was blocking the light to the baby apples trees in the forest. And great to welcome back some old faces to the Forest - Luke, Rob and Kate.

After an essential plum tasting session to get our blood sugars up for forest work, the Famous Five almost became foresters and:

• continued cutting down invasive perimeter trees started on the last session to let sunlight into the forest

• several of us had our first go at drafting apple trees - pretty much breeding apple trees and as good as making a new GoodGym breed of apple!

• making a slowworm SUPERhighway. Yes! A highway for useful slowworms to flourish and eat all the slugs in the veg patch

• shook and shaked some apple trees to collect the fruit

• watered some very thirsty trees

And we will all enjoy our fruity pickings from the session - plums, blackberries and apples.

A big thank you to Brian and Ben!