The Butt of all jokes
8 GoodGymers made their way 8.1km to help their local community in Hackney.
- Tuesday, 7th of May 2019
- Led by Joel Wiles
8 Hackney GoodGymers ran 6.5k to Wick Community Garden to help with a load of jobs on the brilliant community garden.
A compact group this evening with everyone on excellent running form allowed us to power our way River side to get stuck into some vital jobs in the Hackney Wick community garden. Plus some investigating into some of the new sections of the Hackney Half.
First job and toughest was to carry 2 very full builders bags filled with multichannel from the main garden 200 metres down to the new garden. With a bit of leakage and lot of effort we managed it in no time.
Then splitting into groups we had 3 growing beds to dig over mixing mulch and leafs into the soil so that the flowers and veg have the most fertile soil in which to grow.
The heavy and wet job was going water collecting from the river and filling all the 8 water butts up around the garden as well as watering all the flowers, fruit and veg.
With lots complete in 45 minutes of gardening action we munched our biscuit rewards before taking the pretty Victoria park route back to base!!
Thanks for coming along, see you next week for our visit to Abney Park!!
Don’t forget our community missions this weekend helping to set up and clear away the Abney Park fundraiser!!
Joel
Report written by Joel Wiles
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