On Tuesday evening, 6 local Goodgym folks (including new starter Victoria- welcome!) met up at Beacon High School to assist with creating their new vegetable patch out of an overgrown old flower bed. John, one of the teachers at the school, is a keen gardener, and put us to work with clearing almost all of the weeds and plants left in the bed, aside from a collection of saplings. We were armed with shovels, spades, forks and rakes, but most of us found that it was easier to pull out the roots of the plants by hand (we had just experienced some heavy rain over the weekend, which thankfully softened the ground for us).

After an hour of hard graft, and multiple wheelbarrows full of green waste, we had cleared about 75% of all of the excess plants, branches, bushes and weeds, and the space was looking tidier already. All being well, we hope to return to finish the job very soon! Great work all!