Keeping a level head

1 Goodgymer helped their local community in Southwark
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Southwark

Saturday 18th May

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Today it was just me joining Simon so together we went to move one of the large bed frames to create a new area to plant somw lush vegetation next to the old swing area.

What started as a simple task of removing a bramble and levelling an area turned into a bit of a bindweed hunt and destroy. Slowly but steadily we cleared (hopefully) the area of the pesky invader, and laid down cardboard to keep it at bay.

A few barrowfuls of mulch later and the area is ready for another bed.


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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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