It was a great Day One at Tooting Foodival with more local fruit and veg donated than ever before. Thank you so much to all those who gave some of their hard grown produce. Tomorrow’s celebration of home grown home cooked food should be epic. The action starts at 12.00 with plenty of food related […]
Read More →Tooting Foodival 2015 starts today with the collection of home grown fruit and vegetables at Mushkil Aasaan at 222 Upper Tooting Rd, next to Nandos! If you can contribute even the tiniest carrot to the Foodival cause, we would love to see you! Have your photo taken in the I Grew This frame or enter […]
Read More →Two singer songwriters, two bands, a ukulele combo plus some alternative making & carnival will light up this weekend’s Tooting Foodival at the Samaj Hall. But can you guess who the performers are? Clues below: Head over to the Foodival blog for the full details of this great line up. We look forward to seeing […]
Read More →Our new ‘Rooting in Tooting’ project has been developed with the Tooting charity CARAS (Community Action for Refugees and Asylum-Seekers). We’ve written two posts so far, please scroll down this blog to read them. You’ll see that our pilot project in May and June was enjoyable and positive. For Those in Peril on the Sea […]
Read More →In today’s news we learn that 90% of seabirds have eaten plastic and are likely to retain some in their gut. It’s pretty horrendous that so much waste plastic ends up polluting our oceans and we will be highlighting waste at this year’s Tooting Foodival. An Albatross takes a shine to a plastic bottle It […]
Read More →TTT is looking forward to our new partnership project with CARAS and the RHS ‘Greening Grey Britain’ campaign (see our 18th Aug post below). To help launch ‘Rooting in Tooting’, we joined in at the CARAS Open Day at All Saints’ Church, Tooting. It was a very welcoming day for the extended CARAS family, where many […]
Read More →If you’ve walked past the Derinton Community Centre in Tooting recently, you may have noticed vibrant yellow planters bursting with colourful flowers, where rubbish used to reside, and young people sitting on bright benches doing their homework. Those young people, who attend the CARAS youth club on the site, worked with a team from Transition […]
Read More →That’s right. It’s less than a month until South London’s favourite sustainable food festival – Tooting Foodival! Over on the Foodival blog, we’re ramping up the announcements – letting you know about all the great things that will be happening over the weekend, and all the great people who make Foodival the glorious local festival […]
Read More →On Sunday August 2nd we focused on Shelter. Each family Field Day safari has a theme that’s about enjoying the local outdoors, creativity and also low-carbon living. We’ve explored Travel, Water, Nature and more…and had a lot of fun together, and discovered parts of Tooting we didn’t know at all. What did we do?In the […]
Read More →The Meet & Make that was planned for tonight at Sprout has been postponed and moved to a new venue. We will now be making for the Foodival on Weds 19th August at Streatham Cemetery from 6:30 – 8:30 Check the calendar and/or contact Jeni at jeniannewalker@gmail.com for info or to let her know if […]
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