Lost & Mound

12 Goodgymers helped their local community in Leeds
Katie Presley
Helen Noyes
Shannen Bagaria
Laura
Adam Richards
Ikechukwu Christian
Lydia Jackson
Beth Bingley
Analise
Jake
Erica
Ross Hickman
1 / 9
Leeds

Wednesday 18th February

Credits
Helen Noyes
Helen Noyes

PHOTOGRAPHER

WELCOMER

Laura
Laura

SESSION ORGANISER

REPORT WRITER

SOCIAL MEDIA

Find out about GoodGym TaskForce

Report written by Laura

Share the love

Tonight, we mainly stood in amazement at Christian's speedy digging skills!

We were digging trenches at Bedford Fields , filling them with logs and garden waste to create mounds. This is a permaculture technique that uses decaying wood as a base to create nutrient-rich, moisture-retaining garden beds. The buried wood acts like a sponge, absorbing water during wet periods and releasing it during dry spells. As the wood breaks down over several years, it provides a consistent, slow-release nutrient source.

It was a freezing night but we managed to keep warm (ish) with our hard work.

Thanks for coming out in the cold everyone:)


This task supported
Bedford Fields
Community Forest Garden
See more

Discuss this report
Join us on our next session

Leeds

Meanwood Valley Farm - Various Tasks
🗓Today 6:00pm

We are a small charity with limited resources, so jobs like this often fall by the wayside. It helps us to continue to focus on our core work, but also with compost, it means we can have less inputs and save money

+2
Erica
Katie Presley
Lydia Jackson
Kat Goldmann
Helen Noyes
7 GoodGymers are going - 18 spaces left! 👀