A great community mission with friendly volunteers. We started the task by unloading a delivery and then got to work sorting and refilling food items for the community shop. Heart warming to see the diversity of food donated, and the hard work that goes in to make this community resource a success. Not only are they on a mission to reduce food waste, but also plastic waste. From refilling grain containers, to peeling back the spring onions to make them shop suitable - this task has a good amount of opportunities to get hands on, and make a difference.

Well done everyone on another good task helping Springfield Park!

Me, George and Caitlin met outside Brunswick Bakehouse for a nice social run through parks and along the river Lea to the task. There we met up with the rest of the team, welcome new Goodgymer Paula !

We grabbed the tools from the depot and made our way to the work in progress Wildflower Strip next to the tennis courts in Spring Hill.

We surveyed the area and focused on patch which we were able to complete in the allocated time. We raked/ hoed the grass, whilst dodging tennis balls! We then spread sand over the area to help with reducing the grass burden, and dropping the fertility of the ground which will help to establish a healthy wildflower strip that will be more likely to survive long term. Wildflower strips are a great source of food for pollinators, and great for bigger mammals like hedgehogs who will hunt in them.

Before we knew it we created our own little Beach / Dry Garden in Hackney.

Great job everyone, see you at the next one!