Community Garden in London SW16 run by Transition Town Tooting. Come down and get your hands dirty!
For the past 2 1/2 years, TTT has been running outdoor learning classes with pupils from Gatton, a local primary school in the community garden. From weekly sessions with Reception and Year 1 classes, to 7-week projects with the Year 6 students, the classes encompass a huge range of cross-curriculum learning, developing new skills and […]
Read More →Mena participating in the garden Earlier in the year, we had a visit by an MSc student from Edinburgh called Mena Grossmann. Mena, as she describes below, used Transition Town Tooting as a case study to explore diversity within the Transition Town Movement for her MSc research project.For us and the Transition Movement as a […]
Read More →TTT is delighted to launch Growing Tooting, a new project to promote community gardening in Tooting and nearby neighbourhoods. This is a year-long project which aims to attract more people into growing healthy local food. You may be familiar with some of the benefits of community growing, for instance: Socialising with a shared interest Improving […]
Read More →Over on the Foodival blog we have been rounding up the stories from this year’s sustainable food event in Tooting. There’s a Balham woman who grew bananas … Bananas grown by Susan in her Balham back garden And Sophie was the new face winning the prestige title of Top Tooting Cook 2015 with her beautiful […]
Read More →Our new ‘Rooting in Tooting’ project has been developed with the Tooting charity CARAS (Community Action for Refugees and Asylum-Seekers). We’ve written two posts so far, please scroll down this blog to read them. You’ll see that our pilot project in May and June was enjoyable and positive. For Those in Peril on the Sea […]
Read More →TTT is looking forward to our new partnership project with CARAS and the RHS ‘Greening Grey Britain’ campaign (see our 18th Aug post below). To help launch ‘Rooting in Tooting’, we joined in at the CARAS Open Day at All Saints’ Church, Tooting. It was a very welcoming day for the extended CARAS family, where many […]
Read More →If you’ve walked past the Derinton Community Centre in Tooting recently, you may have noticed vibrant yellow planters bursting with colourful flowers, where rubbish used to reside, and young people sitting on bright benches doing their homework. Those young people, who attend the CARAS youth club on the site, worked with a team from Transition […]
Read More →All welcome to make a FREE day of it together this Sunday – with an outdoor focus:Tooting Community Garden will be open to all from 11:00 to 1:00There’s lots to do, from sowing autumn crops to sculpting our bramble bushes (there’s going to be a lot of fruit for the Tooting Foodival on 12 & […]
Read More →Our Open Day on Sunday 14th June was full of contrasts. A damp and quiet start with a steady trickle of visitors, good conversations and storytelling with Aesop Grimm gathered pace in the afternoon as the sun came out. We cooked delicious treats prepared by the Tooting Field Day group on the charcoal fire, while […]
Read More →All welcome to our free Garden Open Day! There’s plenty to join in with: > For the third year running we’re part of the Open Gardens and Squares London-wide weekend. > Aesop Grimm is telling intriguing stories.> We’re linked in with the local Furzedown Festival, and the Furzedown Oak Community Project will start to shape […]
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