On Sunday 6th July, Friends of Streatham Cemetery, in partnership with Groundwork London and Lambeth Council were joined by local residents to celebrate the re-opening of an entrance into Streatham Cemetery that has been closed to the public for 20 years. This makes this phenomenal area of green space much more accessible to the hustle […]
Read More →This year’s Foodival on the 13th and 14th September will, as ever, be a celebration of locally grown food showing how it’s possible to grow local, eat local and be sustainable while also having fun! Now in its 7th year, we hope this will be the biggest Foodival yet and of course it’s FREE to […]
Read More →We’re continuing the glimpses into what we’re covering in our current series of informal Carbon Conversations. Here is the fifth…Participant Ben has written his own response to this week’s meeting, all about exploring carbon reduction in our Food. Ben’s comments:” Monday evening in Tooting….cold, damp with a mid-summer mist clinging to the trees across the common. And here we are, […]
Read More →Could you be the next Top Tooting Cook? Last year the culinary talents of many local cooks were on display in Tooting Market at the hotly contested inaugural Top Tooting Cook competition. This year we are expecting the competition to be even hotter with even more local cooks taking up the challenge. It’s all in […]
Read More →Jenny has posted her response below to the most recent meeting in our ‘CC’ series. During the series we have been digging into understanding our own ‘carbon footprint’ and what it means to us in real life. The UK average carbon footprint per person per year now is c12 tonnes of C02 emissions. There’s a challenging and […]
Read More →On Sunday 15th June the Tooting Community Garden took part in the Open Garden Squares Weekend. Usually open on Sundays between 11 and 1 when anyone is welcome to come along, on the Open Day we were open all day long with a whole host of events including storytelling, human snail races, cycle for a song, […]
Read More →Nice picture of the Furzedown Low Carbon Zone stall at the Furzedown Festival on Saturday. FLCZ Chair Giles Read (who took the photo, thanks Giles) said: “what a brilliant event The Furzedown Festival was. The interest in the FLCZ stall exceeded all expectations, from people interested in investing to those wanting information on solar panels […]
Read More →Our third meeting in the current Carbon Conversations series was all about exploring and reducing our carbon footprint in the things we purchase. That’s a big topic which ranged from ‘why do we buy stuff anyway?’ to re-use and ‘upcycling’.Richard is a participant and has been researching an apect of consumption: re-using building materials, He […]
Read More →Wandsworth Council’s May 2014 Brightside magazine has come though our doors, and the eagle-eyed will spot the nice short article with photo mentioning our Tooting Community Garden project with Gatton School. See it on page 8 of Brightside by clicking here. Here’s the photo: Year Six children planning how to construct the cold frame The article is about Project […]
Read More →Yesterday’s Community Garden Open Day was a lot of fun, and we’ll bring you some more updates and photos soon. Panorama in mid afternoon More than a hundred people came along: almost all of them for the first time, which is exactly the idea. There was a super diversity of visitors’ interests and we had […]
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