Community Garden in London SW16 run by Transition Town Tooting. Come down and get your hands dirty!
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 […]
Read More →Our current outdoor learning project with Gatton School is to build a greenhouse in the community garden made from recycled plastic bottles (see picture below – this is what we hope the finished greenhouse will look like). The year 6 pupils come to the garden for an hour a week to work on this and […]
Read More →When you were at school, was your classroom outside in the sun? We’re building a plastic bottle greenhouse at the Tooting Community Garden, along with Year Six from Gatton School. That means the children are preparing bottles that would otherwise be added to local waste or recycling. They are measuring the site and problem solving for […]
Read More →A lot has happened since the insects last blogged: 3 sessions with Gatton Primary, Christmas, New Year and most all of January! High time we caught you up. The last 3 sessions with the school where filled with habitat creation. Each week we looked back at the 15 minute “mini-hotels” during the first 4 sessions […]
Read More →All welcome to join us for a winter day this weekend in the Tooting Community Garden at 5 North Drive, SW16 1RN Brave the cold outside, and swap screen time for wild time 1030-1130 Shhhhh…take part in the RSPB Garden Birdwatch 1145 Bird-themed storytelling with Emily Duizend 1200 Tea making with the volcano kettle 1230-1330 Get […]
Read More →Have you ever thought about how much material gets used once and thrown away? Or is not financially worth re-using? Or how most people won’t be satisfied buying something second hand, it has to be new? Somewhat in tune with Transition Network’s December theme of “Less is More” I thought it would be of interest to […]
Read More →It’s been 4 1/2 weeks since we started the Insect Hotel build. In the Tuesday sessions with Gatton Primary, we have welcomed 40 students to the garden. We have shown them flint tools found at the site from thousands of years ago, the growing beds created only a few years ago and the Rainwater Catchment […]
Read More →Often with our work with Gatton, we’ll augment the sessions with the students with extra hours to maintain momentum as well as keep us on track. These augmenting sessions usually happen during normal garden hours on a Sunday, 11am to 1pm. So come down if you specifically want to contribute to this project. Send a […]
Read More →In the past fortnight we have hosted two year groups of 50 children each with staff and parents from Gatton School for two special mid-November outdoor learning sessions, Tooting style. Year Four actively searched the garden’s diverse habitats for minibeasts as part of a curriculum day on the natural world. They found worms, woodlice, centipedes, […]
Read More →On Tuesday 11th November, we enjoyed the second session of our Insect Hotel Project at the Community Garden, with Year 6 from Gatton Primary School in Tooting. Each week there is a new group of 10 students from the two classes of Year 6, so it’s always good to welcome them to the garden before […]
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