Between the 13th and 17th September, the Transition Network Conference ran on Tooting’s doorstep at Battersea Arts Centre. The network links together more than a thousand Transition Town initiatives worldwide. Designing a city with the enterprises we want As you would expect it was extremely full – with the different days focusing on different themes […]
Read More →Hot of the press – here is the Poster and Flyer for the Tooting Foodival on the weekend of September 22nd and 23rd.To download a .pdf version of the Foodival poster, click here The Flyer: To download a .pdf version of the Foodival flyer, click here
Read More →The TTT Community Garden looked a hive of industry when I dropped by this lunchtime. As a result of our intrepid garden volunteers’ efforts lots of lovely-looking vegetables are ripening or already ready to harvest. Here we have potatoes, tomatoes, radishes and even wheat; could a Tooting loaf soon be a possibility? There should be […]
Read More →This year’s Foodival takes place over the weekend of the 22nd & 23rd September. As in previous years we hope all you local gardeners and food growers have been as busy as this bee and will be able to donate any surplus produce you can spare. Local chefs and restaurants will use your hard won […]
Read More →Much too hot this weekend for a complex posting from us! So…Just in case anyone doubts the pleasure to be found in growing urban food: here’s three easy steps from the ground to the bowl today: One…lifting These Desiree maincrop potatoes were planted during Treasuring Tooting in May, and this weekend they were calling out to be […]
Read More →Following the success of the Trashcatchers’ Carnival in 2010, and a strong arts and making presence at the yearly Foodival and in this year’s Treasuring Tooting wellbeing walk, Tooting is gearing up to discover and acknowledge just how important arts and making is to Tooting’s transition steps. Smart stands for Sustainable Making and Arts Tooting. We’re […]
Read More →If good meetings take practice, then in the past week we’ve been rehearsing for a team yellow jersey with six meetings in eight days –sometimes an uphill climb, sometimes a sprint! There was the last workshop of our sixth series of Carbon Conversations; our monthly TTT co-ordination get together; inaugurating the new ‘SMART’ artists’ group; streamlining our web […]
Read More →The weather gods were kind and Sunday blessed us with a break in the endless grey skies and rain. Warm, sunny (at least some of the time) and gorgeous blue skies reminded us all what a summer day should be! Ten of us met at the Community Garden to make the best of the sunshine. […]
Read More →Sharing some pictures from the Community Garden – & we’re having a Garden working picnic on Sunday 15th JulyThe gardeners (and plants) are persisting through the mixed weather – Loads of broad beans in June Fertile conditions for all Great Willowherb Anti-slug mini greenhouses Water capture – and it supports the shed Beetle’s-eye […]
Read More →Ever fancied bypassing conventional media to talk directly to your own community and others all over the world? Here’s your chance to learn how!This practical workshop has been developed by Mark Barto from visionOntv, and Patrick Chalmers, authour of Fraudcast News.Participants will learn to make short video reports for instant uploading to the web. Please […]
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