Weed Don't Need No Vegetation

36 Goodgymers helped their local community in Lambeth
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John Hunter
Mark Gilyead
Isabel Sloman
Dawn Gibson
Jim
Tessa Hall
Sarah Hirst
Lucy Ranson
Freyja Winterson
Aislin Mageean
Chi Nwa
Michael Welsh
Lucy
Alex Watkins
Nicky Woodall
Tim Wheatley
Philip Woodall
Eleanor
Laura
Angela
Maddie
Marina
Holly Foster
Catherine Bell
Rebecca Dowse
Shauna
Freddie Gray
Charlotte Taylor
Andrew
Rachel
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Lambeth

Tuesday 6th August 2019

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Mark Gilyead
Mark Gilyead

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Jim
Jim

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Lucy Ranson
Lucy Ranson

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Freyja Winterson
Freyja Winterson

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Nicky Woodall
Nicky Woodall

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There was some top running and good doing last night at GoodGym Lambeth with 36(!) runners turning out to visit Moorlands and Hillside Gardens for some woodchip spreading and weeding.

Big cheers to Lucy, Becca, Shauna, Freddie, Charlotte, Mac and Rachel for joining the gang!

After a quick intro including a quiet reminder that LAMBETH WON THE GOODGYM OLYMPICS🔥🎈🍾🤩🎉🎉🎉, we set off.


Freya lead a smaller group to Moorlands park to create 2 paths out of woodchip:

After a little detour which was definitely, according to Freyja, all part of the plan, the group found Karen and were set to work creating not one but two paths from woodchip. There was a huge pile of woodchip to be moved, but with Team spade, Team Wheelbarrow , Team Bucket and Michael and John trimming the grass we had it done in no time! 💪😎👍


And a bigger bunch of us ran 4k up Brixton Hill to Hillside Gardens to weed around the sports courts.

Lambeth Council have decided to limit their use of chemical weed killers 👏 so they deployed the next best thing: GOODGYM WEED KILLERS 😈

These were some big weeds and BIG WEEDS means BIG ROOTS so we raided the tool shed for implements capable of deep ground penetration. The GoodGym machine is a ruthless beast and in 30 minutes a serious chunk of weeds were uprooted and barrowed into a big white bag. Freddie even scaled a wall to get at some of them 😬(see pics).


Next week we've got two tasks again! If you fancy a longer run, we're flyering for the Brixton People's Kitchen and we'll have a shorter one to Ruskin Park Community Garden. Sign up here!


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