Saturday morning working party

 Members meet at the garden, on Saturdays from 12 noon year-round and on Tuesday afternoons from 5 pm when days are longer, to work  -  maintain and improve the garden, exchange gardening hints and tend their plots - and socialise.

Loading cleared brambles and brushwood on a trailer to take to green recycling.


Work followed by socialising over coffee and cakes under the shelter.


 


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