💥 The 1st of 4 Saturday sessions in October was smashed out the Food Forest this morning by Jaz (first timer whoop!) and Steven

🌱 Joined by Barking Food Forest volunteers Craig & Daniel - along with project lead Nikhil - we completed a crucial task in the build of the new greenhouse, all whilst battling the wind.

🪏 We finished laying access paths either side of the huge new greenhouse. Swapping sled pushes for wheelbarrow runs, we filled barrows with gravel and wheeled them the entire length of the garden - 100 metres!

🦘After all the heavy lifting, we tipped the gravel into the trenches either side of the greenhouse, and did some compacting, i.e. jumping up and down on the gravel.

🪚 We also lifted a large railway sleeper into position for sawing, sliding it into it's final resting place at the end of the access path next to the pond.

✋ High fives all around, thanks Craig for the coffee, and well done Jas on your first ever GoodGym session, look forward to the next one!

happy GoodGymming,

Steven

Huge shoutout to the amazing staff at the AbPhab youth centre for having me. After a warm welcome, I got started on some light weeding until the cavalry arrived: Steven and Josh! The staff then pointed us towards what can only be described as a Produce Apocalypse. The garden was beautiful, but those tomato plants and lettuces had clearly abandoned all rules of polite society - they were MASSIVE and overgrown. Our task was simple: Tame the Tomatoes. We put in some serious work, but the payoff was immediate! We celebrated our progress by sampling the harvest - snacking on some incredibly delicious tomatoes we 'rescued' from the vines. We even got to take home some of the lettuces! (Who knew gardening could double as a grocery run?) Thanks to Steven and Josh for the great company and teamwork. We achieved some solid, sustainable success in a short amount of time. I’m already looking forward to the next session!

Huge Congratulations to Claire and Nilu ( yet to officially sign up 🙈) for completing GoodGym today!

After a breather and taking on water, Steven travelled to Barking Good Forest to help continue building the Greenhouse.

A shirt and sweet session, upon arrival, we found out our incredible host Nikhil had had an unfortunate accident and needed to pop to a&e.

He's absolutely fine now, and we cant wait to visit Nikhil at the Food Forest again on Saturday 4 October!