Community Garden in London SW16 run by Transition Town Tooting. Come down and get your hands dirty!
We’d like to welcome everyone to the Tooting Community Garden on Sunday 21st May from 12:00 to 4:00 for our free Pollinator Party!Find us at 5 North Drive, SW16 1RN. What’s a Pollinator Party?It’s a lovely afternoon in the garden. We’re mixing together fun and instructive activities that focus on planting, beneficial insects and sharing […]
Read More →If you took home one of our TTT goodie bags and are wondering what to do with the packet of seeds in it, here are some simple planting instructions. Radish You can grow these in the ground or in containers or window boxes. Sow thinly in soil and cover with 1.5cm fine soil. Firm down […]
Read More →Are you looking forward to gardening for wildlife in 2017? We recently announced the exciting new Pollinator Paths Wandsworth project, and we’ve been posting updates on Facebook and tweeting. The next step is to run the two free Design Workshops this week One this Friday, one on Saturday. This is where the discussion will take […]
Read More →We’re very excited about TTT’s ninth annual Tooting Foodival which is all about Celebrating Local Food Together as a Community. We’re planning the details now – here’s a snapshot preview.Plenty more information to come later on. ‘Local food plus local community’ is the weekend’s theme: I Grew This! (Foodival 2015) Saturday 10th Sept activities run […]
Read More →Yesterday we officially opened the Dragon Bean bench at the Community Garden Summer Picnic! Gentle finishing touches last week For the past twelve months Fio Adamson has been guiding a participatory sculpture project in the Community Garden. About to cut the ribbon & unveil the bench Now, can Fio rest….? Working with many pieces of […]
Read More →All welcome to join us for an informal and free family picnic on Sunday 7th August from 1- 3 pm at the Community Garden at 5 North Drive SW16 1RN. At 2pm we’ll unveil the oak sculpture that many hands have been carving with Fio’s support since June ’15 Come over from 11am if you […]
Read More →On Sunday 17th July, Jeni Walker and Richard Couldrey continued with the 4th year of our annual pattern of work with the National Citizen Service through “The Challenge” – a personal development and social integration programme offered to 15 – 17 year olds which includes a project focused day with a Charity or Community Group. […]
Read More →In the final local growing sessions in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth we celebrated progress and looked at what comes next now the programme is complete. We discussed harvesting and preparing food (and bringing any surpluses to the Tooting Foodival), and asked about what the participants might need next in their growing journey. Suggestions so far: ‘local […]
Read More →Early in May we held a delightful celebration of three years’ shared experience of the outdoor learning project between Gatton Primary School and Tooting Community Garden. You can look at that blog report by clicking here. The sun shone on us all and lit the mosaic made at the school with every pupil involved. Among the natural images […]
Read More →This afternoon a formal celebration of three years of Community Outdoor Learning with Gatton School took place at the Tooting Community Garden, attended as guest of honour by the Mayor of Wandsworth, Councillor Nicola Nardelli, plus site owner Naseem Aboobaker of Mushkil Aasaan and Rifat Batool, Head at Gatton School. The celebration was joined by many […]
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