With crossed fingers that the rain would hold off, (difficult when cycling) I headed to Hillfields Community Garden to help prepare an area to be sown as a wildflower meadow. Sarah (the coordinator) said, "We hope this will become a Pollinators Paradise". Working alongside volunteers of all ages from the local community we removed turf, stacking it up to provide shelter for the plants and also hopefully prevent the park keepers from absentmindedly "mowing the meadow". By 12.30 we had cleared the last of the grass (before and after pics attached). The area will be initially sown with Yellow Rattle to deter grass regrowth and then seeded with wildflowers. Goodgym have previously visited this project, stacking tyres to assemble planters and raised beds, and it was great to see it thriving and well used by the community. Whilst my group worked on the turf, others were weeding and generally tidying up, whilst another group built bird and bat boxes to be put up around the area and in gardens. Hot drinks and biscuits were generously on offer throughout the morning and when all had finished there was the wonderful surprise of homemade lentil and vegetable stew to share, with chocolate cake for dessert. Sarah and her team have taken over responsibility for the community centre, so as well as gardening there will be the opportunity to support indoor tasks as we move into autumn and winter.

Just the thing to do post Parkrun! The morning stayed dry as I took a gentle jog from Eastville Park up to Hillfields Library. There I met with Kat who shared chocolate biccies and and some leaflets to deliver. The Community Garden has been able to attract funding to support a climate project and are having a major push to get people involved. They needed Goodgym's help delivering leaflets in the local area. I was allocated some streets and off I went, listening to a podcast as I jogged along. Within an hour I was done, signed off with Kat and jogged home, rewarding myself with a fish and chip lunch. The Community Garden will be back outside from March so watch this space for further tasks!

We were blessed with a gloriously sunny morning for our task to help at the Hillfields community garden today. We were quickly assigned a variety of tasks which included:- weeding planters, planting new seeds into pots, rolling tyres, wheelbarrowing rubble and having a good natter as we went. The hour whizzed by and we left the park with the area looking much cleaner, clearer and greener than when we arrived. Result!

Thanks so much for joining me this morning. We will be back at the foodbank in April so keep your eyes peeled for the listing.

We had a lovely morning in BS15 delivering leaflets to spread the word about the Hillfields community garden. Once we had all found the park (which has many entrances) we took a quick photo before heading out on our mission.

We delivered lots of leaflets and got to admire lots of nice front doors. Along the way we met many cats, gnomes and even a sloth.

Look out for another community mission soon to finish off the flyering. The remaining leaflets may well smell of sausage rolls after my trip to Parsons bakery on the run home!