Seven of us met at the Quaker Centre for our group run to Kingsgate Student Pantry. All the students have finished for the year and were heading home so the foodbank needed to be packed up for the summer.

Sarah greeted us when we arrived and we were soon put to work. Emma, Ed and Claire wiped down the fridges in the sun room, Hazel and Ben wiped the fridges by the stairs and Dave and Luke wiped down the buckets and containers. We powered through the tasks so Sarah brought over a big box of herbs and spices and we decanted the big bags into smaller plastic packets for individual use.

Soon we were all done and it was time to run home. Great session everyone! We'll be back in October to help organise the food bank when the students are back. Hope to see you there.

Tonight was a night of two halves. After our group run to Canbury Gardens we split into two teams. One team stayed in the Community Garden and the other headed to the GoodGym flowerbed.

The GoodGym flowerbed is looking lovely but the pesky weeds keep popping up so Sabir, Claire and Rachel tackled the weeds and brambles from big to small in between the plants and round the edges. Then Rachel started filling buckets of woodchip to keep the moisture in and weeds out which we spread around and Ed came and helped Sabir and Claire out with the watering. It was a great workout and the bed is looking beautiful again!

The ever-friendly Marilyn welcomed the second group to the community garden and set us to work with a variety of tasks. Marie-Noelle exercised her scrubbing power by wire-brushing an old bench while Emma started hacking back an extremely over-grown path next to the vegetable plots. We were only here a few weeks ago and amazing how heavily the grass and weeds have grown since then! Meanwhile, Ed and Dave turned the compost and helped Marilyn fill a couple of old tyres full of soil ready to plant some tomato plants - hopefully they're high enough off the ground so the Canbury chickens aren't able to peck the tomatoes! All hands on deck for the final few minutes with the overgrown path and then we were done. Many hands certainly made short work and amazing how much we achieved in the time. Marilyn sent us all home with some home-grown garlic for our troubles :).

Welcome to Edward and congrats on completing your first task! Hope to see you again soon.