It's been a while! I can't tell you for certain but I think it's been about a year and a half since we've been to Bath City Farm, so it was great to be back.

Slowly we've been able to add the regular missions, that we had prior to the organisational changes, back into the Bath calendar and this one was one of the last. Reaching out was the start but our offer to return was met jubilantly by the City Farm; our regular contact (Helen) still being there to enthusiastically welcome is back.

I always used to joke that Missions at Bath City Farm mainly involved manure, but this was an exception (I have a feeling though that some were actually hoping for manure).

A lot has changed since we were last here, many more outbuildings have popped up including a Yurt (a circular tent of felt or skins on a collapsible framework, used by nomads in Mongolia, Siberia, and Turkey). Our job was to wheelbarrow soil down from the top of the farm to the edges around the yurt, where they plan to plant a bed of strawberries.

Bit of a trek between the soil pick up and the soil deposit, but it was the right way round. Full wheelbarrows on the downhill and empty ones back up the hill.

We achieved our goal though, and still had time to lay some woodchip down along the path we'd been using.

Keep an eye out, I will be posting more missions throughout the year, Bath City Farm is BACK on the calendar :)

The regular volunteers at Alice Park Community garden were pleased to welcome back 4 GoodGymmers on Sunday... Meyrick did a great job raising a water butt to allow water flow, Max worked hard shovelling compost while David got chopping to process fallen tree branches. Emily and David then had a mindfulness-like task of stripping leaves from the branches - we were left with a wheelbarrow full of compostable leaves and several ladybirds were rescued in the process :)