On October 8th we had our TTT monthly open public meeting, focused on Growing in the City – growing plants, food, relationships, skills, connections, enterprises, awareness of nature… We looked at a dozen examples of diverse local London garden and growing projects….. We discussed what they are aiming to achieve, and what ‘drivers for change’ (urban biodiversity […]
Read More →Each day in the week of October 1st, the Transition Network website posted informal reports from different London Transition groups. Here is the link for a report from Transition Tooting:https://www.transitionnetwork.org/stories/guest-blogger/2012-10/transition-town-tooting-five-ways-wellbeingTo view the other London accounts, click on ‘Guest Bloggers’. TTT appears in another Transition blog, in an account of a session we offered during the Transition […]
Read More →The latest TTT email has been sent today – please click here to read it. Or sign up to receive it, by emailing transitiontowntooting@gmail.com PS: Join this bee and visit the Community Garden! 11-1 on Sundays; public meeting Monday 8th October at The Selkirk – details in TTT mail
Read More →Together we grow this! A big thank you to all the donors of lovely fruit and veg at today’s Foodival. Don’t miss the cooked up dishes tomorrow at Tooting Market.
Read More →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 […]
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