In the beautiful weather of Sunday 6th October we made tea at the Community Garden using our volcano kettle, trying out some of the wild plants Mark Watson suggested during the Tooting Foodival. We sorted sunflower seeds for drying and sowing next year As well as enjoying cakes made with Garden brambles and local apples (thanks […]
Read More →Some snippets of video from the Foodival plus last week’s Wandsworth Guardian article. Thanks again to everyone who made this such a fantastic event for the 6th year in a row. Can’t wait for the next one! Please tell us what you thought about Foodival 2013 HERE. Thanks!
Read More →What a fantastic weekend at Foodival with a great range of Tooting food cooked up by local restaurants and local cooks. Music and comedy added to the mix. Thanks to everyone who helped out, set up, cleared up performed or ate. More of a report soon but here are a few photos for starters.
Read More →Thanks to all the fabulous donors at Foodival earlier today! Can you recognise anyone below? Come and try local food cooked up by a wide variety of Tootingites on Sunday at Tooting Market as Foodival continues. Here’s an eyewitness report of today’s action: Saturday night and it’s ‘half time’ in the weekend Tooting Foodival. In […]
Read More →Transition Town Tooting present this year’s two-day Tooting Foodival which promises to be even bigger and better than the previous 5. Foodival is a celebration of local growing and cooking – with a sustainable slant. This year we’ve made a comprehensive booklet which describes all the whys and whats of the Foodival – plus giving more background on the […]
Read More →Plenty in the Edible Garden at the weekend including this rather sorry looking but unperturbed fox cub! That garlic should be good for those striving to be crowned “Top Tooting Cook” at Foodival. Still plenty of time to enter, though judges have already ruled that “Renard du jardin communautaire au gratin” will not be a […]
Read More →The latest update is all about food and growing local – because we have the Edible Gardens Open Day on Sat 21st, and then the Foodival on Sept 28th & 29th. All welcome to both! In case you don’t receive our updates by email – you can read a copy by clicking here. Do mail […]
Read More →Transition Town Tooting present our 6th Foodival on the 28th and 29th September 2013, and this year’s two day event promises to be even bigger and better than the previous 5! Foodival is a celebration of local growing and cooking with a sustainable slant. Even in the busy city environs of Tooting, many people are growing vegetables and […]
Read More →‘Edible Open Gardens Day’ celebrates local gardening and food, and is taking place across dozens of London gardens.Click here for Sustain’s blog about the event. We’re pleased to be taking part, and the Tooting Community Garden will be open for an extra day from 11:00 until 3:00 on Saturday 21st September.Please come and visit if you have not […]
Read More →Thanks a lot to the young people who came along to the garden for four and a half hours, in rain and sun (they are taking part in a Challenge Network programme).What did we do?The young people selected from a set of helpful jobs in the garden:> They ground our bread wheat into flourThey used creative ways […]
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