Southlands Community Garden

Developing a community garden for the benefit of Planet Food Customers and local people
To provide a small, safe community garden, that both provides a place to meet with others, for outdoor community activities, for childrens groups that use the church, and a place to grow food, herbs and flowers for the Planet Food Waste food cafe that, as well as preventing food going to landfill, and providing low cost food to those on the breadline serves as a meeting point, community forming centre in our community . The space will also be used by our artists in residence for community artwork displays and projects.

27 GoodGymers have supported Southlands Community Garden with 2 tasks.


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Vicky Hearson
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Ed Woollard
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Jenna Drury
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Chipping away at the pile with a wee-lil-barrow

Monday 24th March

Written by Ed Woollard (He/Him)

Our last head torch group run for a while saw a bumper 26 GG Yorkies turn out for the choice of either soil inversion at Rowntree Park or prepping a flower bed at Southlands Church.

Knowing full well how difficult it can be organising a group of GGers (what is our collective noun?) at the end of a task, tonight started with a warm up which saw Ed introduce some of the exercises the gang would be doing later on as part of the fitness session. We then set off a steady group led by Nick to Southlands church, whilst Laura backmarked the bigger group which headed to Rowntree Park

After the brief run across we met Vicky at the task who had been left instructions by task owner Christine, who unfortunately couldn't be there tonight. Whilst Vicky is confident she got the details about the task correct, we're bot entirely sure that the tools were quite right as there surely must have been better options for shifting wood chip than a small bucket and two children's wheelbarrows! To her credit, Charlotte did make the most of the only full-size barrow, even if it was pretty broken

Whilst one group tackled the wood chipz the rest of the Rowntree Park crew cracked on with soil inversion at two designated areas. One proved significantly easier to get the spades in than the other so there were a few grumblings from Nikki when she was moved over to the tougher area, although her suffering didn't last long as she was handed a tiny wheelbarrow and joined in with the wood chip spreading

Over at Southlands Church....

The two groups came together at the end of the night for a fitness session (with some of the moves we'd rehearsed earlier). The workout featured 10 exercises, with 20 seconds rest between each one, and with each exercise being done for 30 seconds. Vicky was so disappointed that there was no can-can as one of the exercises that Ed caved-in and added a bonus exercise at the end. And this time we were determined to get it right. So after a quick tutorial from Leanne, everyone lined up, linked arms, and performed what felt like a perfect can-can. Although the video tells a much different story!

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Envelope dropping

Friday 17th May 2024

Written by Vicky Hearson (she/her)

seven of us gathered on a nice sunny Friday evening to help a local church deliver Christian Aid envelopes. We divided into 4 groups and divided up the envelopes, which had beenvery helpfully labeled into street bundles.

After weaving our way around the local streets we popped to the Slip Inn to rehydrate.

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