Giving the walled garden a glow up!

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Saturday 8th July 2023

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Donning my day-glow waterproof I braved the summer showers to head to Thorlands and found Simon and the gang taking refuge in the walled garden admiring the new water feature dripping through the canvas overhead.

As it eased a little I stayed with the group in the walled garden as we emerged and set about our various tasks, chatting in the rain. GoodGym's contribution was clearing an area of weeds from the gravel and a bit of set design to pull together a new seating and work nook in the garden.


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Thorlands Garden
The first Camberwell market garden in over fifty years

Thorlands Gardens is a food growing club based on an east Lambeth housing estate, in Camberwell. There was a shared vision to move forward with a zero miles food project on unused and unloved brownfield spaces. There was an understanding that residents of all ages could volunteer simply for the value that experience gives to individual wellbeing. There is also the added bonus of sharing the fruits of the labour, which in this case is healthy produce, such as vegetables, salads, herbs, and edible flowers.

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John Shirley

Thu 13th Jul 2023 at 1:42pm

good work, I hope to be back at that task soon

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