Tonight 5 GoodGymer's returned to Marlpit Community Garden, to support this volunteer run venue.

We began filling wheelbarrows with woodchip, transporting it to the back of the orchard to use as mulch for the fruit trees. Then on the way back we helped clear a pile of chopped wood, rubble and cardboard, carrying it to the central bonfire area. While this took up most of the evening, Liz & Jack were also able to give the herb garden a much needed trim.

The hour flew by and with the sun still shining we ran, cycled & walked back to the city. Well done team!

Tonight we headed to the beautiful Marlpit Community Garden. 9 GoodGymer's ran, walked or cycled along the traffic free Marriotts Way.

The large volunteer-led community garden, with orchard and allotments, had recently been mowed. So we began raking up the dried grass into large piles that will be used as mulch for the fruit trees. Its amazing what we can do in an hour! There was also time to transport flatpacked cardboard to the far end of the site using wheelbarrows.

Well done to first timers, Jordan, Ben and Andy. Hopefully we will be back at this lovely venue in the near future.

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, its off to work we go!

Tonight 7 GoodGymers ran or cycled 6km to support Marlpit Community Garden.

Organisers Tish & Mark met us at the gates with 7 wheelbarrows loaded with wood chip.

We were lead through the allotments past beautiful sunflowers and apple trees, to an area 250m away to unload the wood chip onto a new path.

Winds chimes whistled a happy tune as we made regular shuttle runs of wood chip, walking approx 3-4km across the evening.

After an hour we were rewarded with juicy red apples to choose from, even Snow White would have been tempted!

On another quaint evening at Marlpit Community Gardens, GoodGym lent a hand or few.

Stephen had the grand job or repositioning a mass pile of horse manure, which he made light work of!

The rest of us were raking up piles of the cut long grass.

Congratulations to Liz who was completing her 10th GoodGym deed.

To finish the evening, they allowed us to pick some berries for self consumption.

It was another lovely summer evening at Marlpit Community Gardens.

The main take was to do some weeding around the vegetable patches.

We were kindly treated to some red lettuces.

It couldn't have been a more tranquil evening, as we visited Marlpit Community Gardens as the sun started to lower and the cattle grazing in the adjacent field.

We had a tough task on our hands as we started to make inroads to move a pile of bark to the other end of the gardens (about 200 metres away).

There were 7-8 wheelbarrows and it was a grueling task of shoveling the bark into the barrows and transporting them before unloading.

Liz discovered a Toad in the pile of bark, which was then safely transferred to the pond area.