Today we were at the Community Garden
Stonehill House, Stonehill Lane, Abingdon for the second time this year. The
Community Garden is open every Wednesday and welcomes volunteers, who grow
fruit and vegetables and look after rescued battery chickens.
Rachel, who is in charge of the project,
had arranged a number of tasks for us, and luckily the session was well
attended, with 15 Green Gymmers turning up. The tasks included clearing nettles
and other weeds from the recently planted hedge, moving compost and leaf mould
from the bins into the garden ready for spreading on the beds, digging two
small ponds and even building a toilet cubicle from pallets under the direction
of Graham, who is a regular Wednesday volunteer.
We all worked hard until coffee break
time and Michele had brought refrigerator biscuit cake, which was very welcome.
The compost and leaf mould had all been moved, so some of us set to work
digging the ponds. By the end of the morning the perimeter of the garden looked
much better for the weed clearing, we had dug one pond and cleared the
ground ready for digging the second one and the toilet cubicle was well on the
way to completion.Graham will finish it off on Wednesday.
Before we left, some of us
bought vegetables, honey from hives in the grounds and apple juice from a
pressing earlier in the month.
-Eleanor
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Moving the compost. |
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Beginning
work on the cubicle. |
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Weeding. |
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The rescue chickens. |
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Tea break. |
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The almost finished cubicle. |
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