Thoroughly enjoyed helping out the fabulous team at Mitcham Community Orchard & Garden and learned new skills for sawing, chopping and bashing woody broccoli stalks into fibrous pieces for composting 💪 Who’d have thought there was so much to it! 👌👊 Huge thanks 🙏 to Ms K, Ms R, Mr C and, oh dear I can’t remember (or display) all of your names 😳 but all were so incredibly welcoming, knowledgeable and friendly and the experience and fresh air was truly invigorating and socially enriching - particularly as my day job involves sitting lonesome at a pc screen all day! Highly recommend this beautiful and very productive garden for doing much good in the community. Thoroughly enjoyable and fun morning, and I hope to return again soon for one of their Action Saturdays 👍🙌😊

Claire and I joined a team to help in the community garden. We pruned, weeded, watered and moved a raspberry bush! It was wonderful to see things start to bloom and grow.

Once again the sun came out for this (Valentine's Day) session. Sarah had a list of jobs ready for us and we set about digging holes, moving blackcurrant bushes, tidying the herb beds, cutting back the lemon balm and lots more. By the end we'd earned our coffee at the adjoining Pawelek cafe, where there were some very tasty-looking Valentine's cakes on display. We'll be back next month...

A year on from our first session in this garden, it was lovely to see how well it's coming along, with the first daffodils shyly emerging and the impressive new bay tree resplendent in its pot. For this session we were planting fruit trees, moving blackcurrant and raspberry bushes, cutting back lemon balm and doing some weeding, all under the knowledgeable supervision of Inger. The sun came out and it didn't really feel like January. We'll be back next month!

Lovely couple of hours spent at the Mitcham Community Orchard & Garden today. Helped tidy up the nature pond whilst enjoying a rare bit of sunshine. Coffee, cake and a chat with the other volunteers afterwards made for a very pleasant morning.

A duo of GoodGymers headed to the Wimbledon Quarter to support The Wheel with their first clothes swap event. We hit the ground running (and lifting), helping to move tables, unload bags of stock, and transform the space into an organized hub for pre-loved donations.