(Grove) Park Life
11 GoodGymers made their way 3.2km to help the Grove Park Allotments in Southwark.
- Wednesday, 31st of July 2019
- Led by Lucy J
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That's enough of the business
Last night we ran 3km overall to do watering, weeding and woodchip shifting at Grove Park Allotments.
The allotment space can be used by anyone and has plots specifically reserved for community groups like Refugees in Southwark and Primary Schools. It's currently a community group but it's applying for charitable status soon.
Shout out to Abigail who came on her first ever group run tonight! We hope to see you again soon :)
The space looks amazing at this time of year, with asparagus, artichokes, raspberries, plums, lavender and more blooming beautifully. We set to work in groups: one group weeding around the apiary (that's bees not apes), one watering specific plots and another shovelling the last of the woodchip to be spread in certain plots. In 40 minutes we'd moved all the wooddchip and spread it, thoroughly helped Gian Franco (the beekeeper) with his area and given plenty of plots a good drink! And we may have had a few cheeky raspberries and plums along the way...
A big thank you as always to Liz for having us over. They've got a pond in the works so it looks like we might have some mega digging tasks coming our way!
Great work team, see you next week!
Lucy J
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Led by Lucy J
Ex-trainer for Southwark, defector to Sheffield. Marathon runner, ultra-experimenter, triathlete. www.runmindful.co.uk
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