Seeds of ideas from Kingston Edible Forest

4 Goodgymers helped their local community in Kingston upon Thames
Rob Haworth
Jane Yelloly
Adam
Hannah Cochrane
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Kingston upon Thames

Thursday 17th September 2020

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As summer draws to a close at the forest and it moves into autumnal mode, it has come up with a top seed of an idea as have Good Gym!

4 of us - Adam from Woking, Jane, Rob, Hannah and task owners Brian and Ben got to work on their seed of an idea - we are going to be organising a community mission to collect seeds from small and medium trees across the borough. A primary school and scout group will also be collecting too to enable the forest to plant 1000s of seeds in order to get a supply of trees to plant to make our borough greener.

So our task was to build a couple of beds ready for their seeds! And cover it with chicken wire and cardboard to stop the squirrels, foxes and weeds taking it over.

Our other seed of an idea is a result of all the fruit that GoodGymers have benefitted from over the summer and still the apples kept coming last night.... how about a GoodGym Forest Bake Off (includes drink making too...damson gin etc!)???

And watch this space for the seed mission - we have the next 2 weeks to make it happen!


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Kingston Edible Forest Garden
A vounteer run sustainable community orchard

Develop and maintain a mixed orchard: 200 trees of heritage apple varities, pear, plums, quince, medlar, mulberry, nuts, pond, polytunnel ... We propagate apple trees and have panted 20 in local junior schools and have a tree nursery to grow trees up for local parks and wild life areas. We are in discussion with the council about planting trees in streets.

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