Last night’s GoodGym mission in Roehampton included a change of task, some speedy brush work and one dimly lit fence!🖌️

We were there to lend a hand to Shared Roots, a community food-growing group bringing people together through growing food, connecting with nature and creating a greener, more connected community. 🌱

The original plan took a bit of a detour when we discovered that the artist designing the beautiful artwork for the fence was about to head off on holiday. With the clock ticking, we needed to get a coat of paint on the fence as a matter of urgency, ready for the artistry to follow!

So, Moly, Preya and I rolled up our sleeves, grabbed our brushes and got stuck in. Painting in the dark wasn’t quite the ideal artistic setting, but we were up for the challenge. Fortunately, a good chat and a bit of teamwork meant the time flew by, and we managed to get the majority of the fence painted. Hopefully, it’ll soon be transformed into something special. 🎨

And there’s more to come! We’ve got several upcoming sessions at Shared Roots, where we’ll be helping to plant trees and support this lovely community growing project. 🌳 Check out these three planting sessions

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Five volunteers got down and dirty, filling the flower beds with fresh soil before taking on the much more complicated business of building compost boxes. The boards refused to play ball, so we had to get creative and screw around with the design until everything finally lined up. There was measuring, re-measuring, some questionable angles and enough hardware to make a DIY shop nervous. But after a few screw-tacular engineering decisions, we finally had boxes that were firmly screwed together rather than completely screwed up. All in all, it was a soil-id morning’s work—and we left feeling thoroughly compost-ed.