8 of us came out today from across Brent and Barnet to help-out at Clitterhouse Farm, including Lucas and Harry both there for the first time, thanks a lot for coming out! 👌

In fact none of us had been here for a Community Mission since September last year, and there have been developments, despite Coronavirus. Most striking is the large conservatory near the back of the farm. There should now be plenty of indoor space to have a quick break when the more grim months come around. No need today though as it was glorious out. ☀️

The farm was open for Open House weekend so there were lots of people coming and going, children pressing apples 🍏 🍎 and people selling jars of honey and such. We were there for real work mind, so the 8 of us split out to handle soil (and dust) moving at the front and back of the farm.

At the back, the ground needs to be levelled to make a path so the team were helping regular taskowner Thomas to turn it over and help grade it.

In the front, the rest of us helped gardener Alan with filling a new raised bed for bamboo 🎋. Once established, the bamboo can be dug-out and parts can be sold. For now though, we needed to sort the soil and fill the bed up bit by bit. There was plenty of fun bits of plastic and broken glass in there, but best of all, the jaws of several animals 💀, both rather different (see pics.) Any zoologists reading who might recognise the teeth / jaws, let us know below perhaps please... 🐶🐱🦊🐮🐷🐴 ? Whilst filling the bed from a pile of soil way down in the playing field, we also took turns fighting back some ivy that was crowding the path by the new raised bed.

It was all tough work to be done today so thanks so much for coming down team! Chances are we’ll be back again soon enough (lockdown #2 notwithstanding) so watch this space for that...