Whole lopp’a love
3 GoodGymers made their way to help the Urban Green Newcastle in Newcastle.
- Saturday, 24th of September 2022
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Led by
Anji Andrews
she/her
After a very wet start for the first time in ages we all arrived late and soggy to Saturday's Urban Green session at Hodgkin Park but raring to go nonetheless.
The plan had been to paint the decorative gates but with rain stopping play we got stuck into some lopping and weeding around the entrance steps - check out ranger Maddie's before and after pics, they are epic!
With clear steps in no time we took a quick tea break and discussed the merit of the humble digestive biscuit before crossing over to the other side of the huge park. A huge amount of money was invested into this park a number of years ago including for the creation of a fenced (and gated?!) flower bed which has drastically overgrown. Armed with loppers and a determined hand we set off cutting that back too. My arms were pretty much done by this point!
A GoodGymer's work is never done and on the way out of the park Maddie spotted some more extremely overgrown plants that were muscling their prickly way into the seating area overlooking the park, so we gave that a good chop before we left too.
Overall a big impact made and some aching muscles created. Perfect!
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