Rothchilds Volunteer Day: Wednesday 19th August 2009
Along with the Green Dreams Team from the Bromley by Bow Centre nearly 50 volunteers descended on the Farm today amid the glorious sunshine and balmy weather.
Taking on numerous tasks to help improve the condition of the Farm workers from the Rothchilds group set about an extremely full days work involving a whole manner of skills not usually associated with their day to day work. They were only too happy to have a go at everything with some pretty impressive and very useful results.
Dismantling some of the chicken sheds and moving them into a new and larger meshed enclosure, cementing in a ramp to allow us to use the chicken sheds old concrete pad as an out of the way parking lot for the Stock Trailer, and removing the old and broken enclosure where our Kune-Kune pigs lived, all before lunch! Great BBQ weather meant a big old cook-out, with beef burgers and salad tasting just a little better, I’m sure, for the surroundings by all. The volunteers were then fortified enough to re section the old byre (and very generously they supplied us with two brand new ’arc’ style pig shelters that will be used to re house Rodney, Honey and Treacle). They also made and planted up a large growing box near to the duck pond for trailing plants and fruit bushes to help cover the shipping containers we use for our straw and hay and generally did the Farm proud in doing an amazing amount of work, even the entire front of the main buildings were given a coat of fresh ‘ivory’ coloured masonry paint! I’d like to offer them our sincere thanks, as soon as we can we’ll post photo’s.
we hope all of them enjoyed themselves and will come and see us again!