Peter Edwards

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Gardening at Green's Windmill and Science Centre
🗓Wednesday 13th August 6:30pm

📍Green's Windmill and Science Centre NG2 4QB

To help the volunteers maintain the gardens around the windmill

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Peter Edwards went on a community mission

Wed 6th Aug at 6:30pm

Coming to our senses

Nottingham Report written by Rachel Levick

Last night GoodGym Nottingham paid our first visit to the Carlton Hill Sensory Garden (also known as the Garden for the Blind). We had been given instructions by the team at Hope Nottingham, who look after the garden in addition to many other community projects and foodbanks around the city.

Our task was to do some general weeding and tidying of the raised beds and around the garden, so we got stuck in straight away with clearing the weeds and trimming various overgrown and dead plants. Some of the group also did a spot of litter picking around the garden.

As this is a sensory garden, it seemed that all the plants had been selected specifically for their sensory properties, both in terms of the way they looked and, more notably, the way they smelt. As we pruned away, we enjoyed the smells of lavender, curry leaves and many other scents that we couldn’t necessarily name but were very pleasant. We all agreed that it was our nicest smelling task to date!

It was also one of our noisiest tasks. Usually we are tucked away in a quiet corner of Nottingham such as a hidden community garden or a church yard, however the Carlton Hill Sensory Garden is right in the heart of Carlton high street which was bustling on this warm August evening. There were children playing on the neighbouring park and a crowd of people enjoying an after-work drink outside the Wetherspoons opposite.

This actually came in helpful in two ways – firstly, Peter nipped over to the pub to borrow a dustpan and (very small) brush to sweep up the cuttings as we’d forgotten to bring our own, and secondly, a passer by noticed us hard at work in the garden and ‘papped’ us, posting on the local Facebook group in celebration of our efforts before we’d even finished! This was incredibly heart-warming (especially as some of us were referred to as ‘youngsters’), and gained a lot of likes and several encouraging comments.

After an hour of work we downed tools, cleared up and transported several bags of green waste to Peter’s car as he had kindly agreed to dispose of it for us. This was a great task and we hope to return to the Carlton Hill Sensory Garden soon to continue where we left off.

Thanks to this task's volunteers Dayna, Rosemarie, Hannah, Leah, Peter, Rachel, Tom and Vytautas.

A huge well done to Tom who we had not seen since he recently completed the Lakeland Trails ultramarathon in a massive heatwave!!

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Wed 10th Sep at 6:30pm

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Wed 30th Jul at 6:30pm

Be-lop-a-pruner

Nottingham Report written by Peter Edwards

It was a first time visit to Sherwood Methodist and a slightly overgrown garden! Secateurs and a variety of loppers were the tools of choice as Peter, Matthew, Rachel, Aj and Nigel (plus a first time guest appearance from Jane, Pete’s wife) rolled their metaphorical sleeves up and got stuck in (and tried to avoid some of the giant thorns!). There was certainly plenty to go at and a good number of wheelie bins were filled to overflowing as the hour flew by. Plenty more to go at and a return visit in September is on the cards!

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