Saturday 1st March
Report written by StephDucat
After a great lunch session at Horsden farm and refuelled/reloaded with carbs, the SKS and not the SAS marched towards the new urban garden to meet Joseph who was on his own today. No Lions today, but the 4 were full of energy for another mission for the day. On arrival, we noticed a massive pile of soil : was this going to be todays mission? Near the poly tunnel, we met Joseph who explain why the garden was full of tracks and obviously very muddy. The heavy machinery he hired made a mess due to the water so very messy terrain. Task today was to lay down teram around the polytunnel to cover the muddy sections and allow the volunteers to walk without being sunk in the mud hole. The roll of teram was heavy and long but the team was able to lay out a great foundation and started putting palets against the fence. Then Sevan and Steph Ducat decided to have a bii of fun in the snow or what looked like snow. Ski, snowboarding on palets and doing snow angels!!!Joseph went to meet some locals who were interested in the community garden project. He said would be back shortly and had an exciting task for us!! Kash went to the cabin and came back with part of the mystery task from Joseph. Wheel barrow with nice soil for us. Once Joseph was back, he told us to go and choose a tree each in the polytunnel as we were going to plant each a new tree!! and Kash went for sweet cheery o mine and Steph Ducat for pear-menent class : 3 holes done and 2 cherry trees and 1 pear tree planted. We don't only demolish or take things down, we also generate and grow fruit and veg. Goal achieved at the new urban garden.
We're planning to erect a poly-tunnel and growing beds to produce fresh vegetables for local charities.
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