This afternoon a formal celebration of three years of Community Outdoor Learning with Gatton School took place at the Tooting Community Garden, attended as guest of honour by the Mayor of Wandsworth, Councillor Nicola Nardelli, plus site owner Naseem Aboobaker of Mushkil Aasaan and Rifat Batool, Head at Gatton School. The celebration was joined by many […]
Read More →The third weekend in our practical, sociable and free Growing Tooting workshops went well in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth. A fourth ‘waiting list’ group starts on the 24th April in Wandsworth. Please scroll down this blog to see our earlier posts. At this stage of our classes, participants have seeds sown or seedlings coming through in their […]
Read More →Join us in planning a wheeled parade and ride through Tooting! Over the last few months, Transition Town Tooting have been experimenting with the idea of a wheeled parade and some bike rides through Tooting – a chance to celebrate the possibilities of safe, open roads for everyone where clean air and community conversations meet. […]
Read More →All went well in the second weekend of our free workshops devoted to growing our own good local food – one class each in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth. (Details of the Growing Tooting programme here). What did we do last weekend? We compared everyone’s window-sill grown pea plants, 2 weeks after sowing. Different conditions (amount […]
Read More →On March 18th & 20th we started Growing Tooting by launching our new free series of 8 classes on learning to grow your own local city food by participating and sharing with others in your neighbourhood. That’s 8 classes in each of 3 locations in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth. Many thanks to Martin for the tireless […]
Read More →Earlier this month TTT organised a clean up of the Church Lane car park, which had embarrassingly been listed as one of the UK’s Top Grot Spots. With the help of Wandsworth Council this notorious dump was “cleaned for the Queen” and TTT held conversations about, well, anything really with a surprising number of passers […]
Read More →Today, Saturday March 5th 12.30-3pm, join us in our colourful Pop Up Sitting Room in the Church Lane Car Park in Tooting, near the junction with Mitcham Road! TTT is hosting community conversations about reducing waste and how we make ‘good change’ in Tooting. Supported by Wandsworth Council, as part of the Keep Britain Tidy […]
Read More →Do you want to learn about local food growing and build up your practical gardening skills, where you live? Our FREE series of gardening and growing workshops starts on the weekend of March 18th and runs to the end of June This free fortnightly programme runs in three different locations in Tooting, Balham and Wandsworth – […]
Read More →We’re proud to be helping with a new outdoor learning project in the Community Garden with Gatton Primary School and the Mosaic Jewish Primary School Our Community Garden-based project with Gatton School has run for nearly three years. Gatton is a Muslim primary near Tooting Broadway – click here for lots of our earlier reports. […]
Read More →Tooting Foodival 2015 today received an inaugural Grow Wandsworth Award from Mayor of Wandsworth, Nicola Nardelli, who launched the awards to encourage people and organisations who grow healthy, fresh, local food in Community Food Projects. With Mayor Nicola at Wandsworth Town Hall At a reception in the Mayor’s Parlour at the Town Hall, including very beautiful […]
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