Saturday 5th April
Report written by Sevan
After a huge task at Horsenden Farm with WWF earlier in the day, Kash, Steph and Sevan arrived at Feeding Ealing's site not knowing what they'd find. When they saw the site, everything looked great. The teram that they laid down last time to hide the mud was gone. The mud underneath was gone too, replaced by firm, dry soil under foot and finally, there was soil in the raised beds.
So, what was today's task? Someone had dumped a huge pile of soil at the entrance and the ask was to:
Everyone got to work moving the soil, finding inventive ways to get it to the top of the main compost pile or into the raised beds. It was tough graft as the wheelbarrows were big and the soil was heavy, plus there was a nice slope leading uphill to the polytunnel area.
The team managed to shift most of the soil and the time came to plant the okra, but too late as it was already the end of toady's task. The okra seeds will need to wait for next time or, given the progress from one month to another, we might be planting something completely different.
We're planning to erect a poly-tunnel and growing beds to produce fresh vegetables for local charities.
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