Scrape, stretch, spruce & sweep
7 Goodgymers helped their local community in Oxford
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Saturday 9th October 2021
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It is always a joy to go to the Children's Allotment and today was no different.
Alice and her team are busy putting the final plans in place for the grand opening at the end of October and needed a bit of Goodgym pixie dust sprinkled over a fee jobs.
Enjoying some surprisingly hot autumn sunshine we leveled off and membraned some area of the polytunnel in readiness for some new raised beds. The entrance to the site was also spruced up and tidied (all worms disturbed were given a new home in the compost area), kale was planted and compost ferried across the site.
We ended our task with some acrobatic apple-picking and were sent on our merry ways with apples for crumble/cake/juice etc.
This task supported
Creating an inclusive, parent-run, outdoor education space in Oxford's East Ward
A group of local parents and volunteers creating an inclusive outdoor education space for the local community. On the site of a disused old plant nursery in the East Ward Allotments on Cricket Road, they are bringing to life their vision for a new kind of 'Nursery' and children's allotment, trying out a new model that can provide affordable, cooperative childcare, outdoor learning and sustainable food-growing for children and families, all primarily outdoors year round.
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