Community Garden in London SW16 run by Transition Town Tooting. Come down and get your hands dirty!
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 […]
Read More →We’re keen to help more people – individuals, families, groups and clubs, enterprises – grow healthy local food in Tooting. Come and have a chat on Saturday at our stand at St George’s about how we might do this together. We’ll be on the 1st floor in the Lanesborough Wing, in the Ingredients Restaurant. We […]
Read More →We harvested our pumpkin today: And within an hour or so, lunch was served (looks great, Diana!): Wonderful! More pictures: click on GARDEN in the links at top of this page. All welcome any Sunday…. (to the Garden, I mean…and yes we should cook lunch there one day)
Read More →Since September we have had Year One groups coming every week to the Community Garden. It was a great run of sessions, and we didn’t miss a day because of bad weather. All credit to the children, staff and volunteers.Now we have Reception and Year Six children coming each week until the end of term. We’ll […]
Read More →This week we embarked on our next garden-based project with Year 6 students and teachers from Gatton Primary School in Tooting. This follows the Rainwater Catchment and Cold Frame projects of last year, as reported in this blog and on the education page of Issue 6 in the Transition Free Press. What is an Insect […]
Read More →Jenny and Rose hatched a plan to do a group effort on our leaves and compost: shift the heaps around, do some finicky work and try out ideas and new skills too. We did other jobs too – many thanks to all, and to Steph for cake. However for photographing I was enchanted by just one story….. […]
Read More →On Sunday 15th June the Tooting Community Garden took part in the Open Garden Squares Weekend. Usually open on Sundays between 11 and 1 when anyone is welcome to come along, on the Open Day we were open all day long with a whole host of events including storytelling, human snail races, cycle for a song, […]
Read More →Wandsworth Council’s May 2014 Brightside magazine has come though our doors, and the eagle-eyed will spot the nice short article with photo mentioning our Tooting Community Garden project with Gatton School. See it on page 8 of Brightside by clicking here. Here’s the photo: Year Six children planning how to construct the cold frame The article is about Project […]
Read More →Yesterday’s Community Garden Open Day was a lot of fun, and we’ll bring you some more updates and photos soon. Panorama in mid afternoon More than a hundred people came along: almost all of them for the first time, which is exactly the idea. There was a super diversity of visitors’ interests and we had […]
Read More →On June 15th, as part of the Open Garden Squares weekend, TTT presents the Tooting Community Garden Open Day & Father’s Day Fete at the Community Garden, 5 North Drive, not far the Lido. Come and discover for yourself this hidden garden paradise. It’s free, naturally, and there are events for all ages including story-telling, […]
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