We’re a surprising community vegetable garden within a hidden-away space that we share with exuberant native trees and plants, just off Tooting Common at 5 North Drive, SW16 1RN. Look out for the signs.It’s our second birthday this weekend, and do come and visit our Open Day on Sunday, being held in conjunction with two great London-wide initiatives: […]
Read More →The 2nd Day of Stories with Tooting Library was a surprising and experimental day. In the morning and afternoon we were transported from the centre of Tooting to join five storytellers’ worlds of wonder – crossing boundaries of geography and time from Norfolk to the Great Plains, with sound effects from the beautiful (the harmonica) to the funny (blowing custard through straws).In the middle […]
Read More →Keen community gardener and TTT “newbie”, Sel, provides her take on the AGM and 5th birthday party, a couple of weeks ago. Transition Town Tooting turned five on Monday April 29th and was celebrated in the Graveney and Meadow pub by various activists, organisers and volunteers. The seeds of this flourishing movement were planted in 2008 […]
Read More →I’ll let the pictures do the talking: 48 hours of local creative activities by the Wandle, in the Community Garden, on Tooting Common. The ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ by the Wandle opposite the Ram Brewery ‘It’s a Wandleful Life’: opening the Wandsworth Arts Festival The climbing frame: freshly painted by Gatton School ‘Wish you were here’ […]
Read More →Saturday 4th May: ‘Wish You Were Here’ Crafty Pint’s workshop printing souvenirs of Tooting, at the Tooting Tram, 12:00 – 6:00. For details click click here Sunday 5th May: ‘The Jigsaw Horse’ storytelling and art promenade leaves Sprout Arts in Furzedown at 1:00. For details click here Saturday May 11th: Welcome to the 2nd Tooting […]
Read More →On 13 April 2013 Mushkil Aaasan in the Upper Tooting Rd hosted “Fresh and Refresh” co-curated by Amee Ramesh and Jeni Walker. This event was designed to be a Spring Festival to inspire people to turn a new leaf and initiate new and positive changes in their lifestyle. The Tooting Bec Lido & Zumba trainers […]
Read More →From window sill to garden This year’s spring wheat The garden will be open next Sunday (the Bank Holiday weekend) from 11:00 – 1:00 Do come along: we’re at 5 North Drive, on the south side of Tooting Common
Read More →Just in case this makes no sense … ahem … TTT has its AGM and 5th birthday party on Monday evening at Graveney & Meadow. It will be a fun event including a quiz with prizes, a brief report on all of TTT’s current projects, a short vote, a lot of cake and time to […]
Read More →Thanks to the dozen people who came along today!We’ll let the photos tell the story – and too bad we missed taking pictures of us emptying dozens of bags of rotted leaves… Sorting seeds by smartphone New bed New path
Read More →We’re learning with Gatton SchoolWe are really delighted to be hosting an exciting new programme of visits by children and staff from Gatton School in Tooting to our Community Garden near Tooting Common. This project has developed quickly since the first meetings in February: there is a lot of goodwill on all sides, and everyone […]
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