Today’s Mission brought five GoodGymers to the Western Road Urban Garden. Christos, Steph and Paul met just outside the gardens, and as the group made their way into the gardens, were greeted by Janpal to give an introduction into the task for the day. Joining us from the Western Road Urban Garden community were Ash, Andrei and Jeff.

First picking up our tools for the day – shovels, pitch forks, buckets and wheelbarrows – the team were shown two plots of 3 x 3 meters in need of clearing at the back of the garden.

We were very soon joined by Kash and Sevan, to pull up the grass, cut down and dig up the deep-rooted weeds, and clear out the rubbish from the two plots. The group, so dedicated to complete the task that nothing would stand in our way, even twisting the metal of a pitch fork all to clear out these plots!

As we dug deeper, inevitably more and more litter was surfaced, with Sevan going about collecting the glass and finding a number of bottle tops. A rare find was a very old intact bottle of whiskey buried in the soil, still with a small amount of whiskey left in the bottle. Obviously this is now very well-aged, but no drinkers!

With everyone working straight through to the end of the session, the team finished clearing the plots, and enjoyed some fantastic samosas provided by Janpal for a well-deserved break.