Providing some lumbar support at Heeley City Farm

19 Goodgymers helped their local community in Sheffield
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Tom Mutton
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Sheffield

Monday 11th October 2021

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WHAT A TASK we had this week!

It had it all;

  • Sledgehammers
  • Logs
  • Lights
  • Hills
  • Goats
  • Cereal!

We met with the lovely Julie of Heeley City Farm (HCF) who let us into this gem of a place and through the site to the field we would be working in past all of the very cute goats.

HCF have had to have some trees on site felled and the larger logs needed splitting, bagging and shifting so that they can be dried and sold in the future to bring some income into the site which doesn't have any monetary support from the Council and needs to be self sustaining so this was a great way for us to help out.

We got straight to it, splitting.... into smaller teams:

  • Log splitters - 'I wanna be... your sledgehammer!'
  • Assistant log splitters - putting in the 'grenade' splitters into the logs to get them started
  • Log sorters
  • Log baggers
  • Log movers
  • Log shakers (ok, made this one up)
  • Goat petters

We certainly expended some energy and shed some timber on this task! It was great to be out in the night air, a great remedy to any splitting headaches...At times it was hard to see the wood from the trees, but in the end we were told we had made up 24 bags which was a great effort!

After finishing we made great use of the well lit traffic free hill outside for some hill reps in teams where we did 4 reps of:

40% 60% 80% 110% (as the Americans say)

We had a steady saunter back before stretching off and making birthday plans (see listings on website).

Until next time, happy running! :)


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Heeley City Farm
Working for the community with the community

Heeley City Farm has an onsite vegan/vegetarian cafe (The Farm Kitchen), an on site Garden Centre, our eco-refurbed house and visitors centre the South Yorkshire Energy Centre, wildlife gardens, our dementia garden (Valerie's Garden), food growing area and, of course, all of our wonderful animals which you can find out in the fields, in the stables and in our Small Animal House where you can find all the little critters that inhabit the Farm

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Tue 12th Oct 2021 at 10:11am

*Lumber support*

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