Monday 9th July 2018
Report written by Paul Bown
16 GGers ran 6km to help Sunnyside Community Gardens turn their compost piles!
Welcome along to Anna and Ndala whose first time it was last night! Lovely to have you along.
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After a warm up we headed directly north to the amazing Sunnyside Community Gardens. This NGO based in Hornsey is the centre of the local community, providing an area for activities and people to use the green space.
While Anna had a committee meeting we got to work with an array of tools. There were three piles of compost - new, on-the-way and finished. One group completely turned over the new pile, enabling the components to break down to make the compost. A second group picked all the twigs and sticks out of the 'on-the-way' pile and turned it over.
Meanwhile James, Lucy and Kike broke down and cut up the sticks and branches on the other half of the 2nd pile. They were joined by three friendly frogs, leaping away from James' swinging spade to the nearby pond.
Hopping fun!
As we were finishing up with all three piles Chris and Alex carried over four logs to extend the border of one of the piles.
On the way home we split into two groups, one heading straight back and the other going via the park and railway track.
Check out the report from Graham, Steve and Julie's mission here.
Next week you guys will led by Frances and will be carrying woodchip from one homeless project to another. Sign up here
PB out
Islington
Joining the lovely resident gardeners at Thornhill Square Gardens for an evening of composting, watering and maintenance