Community Garden in London SW16 run by Transition Town Tooting. Come down and get your hands dirty!
One of the outdoor learning projects we are carrying out with Gatton School’s Year Six class is helping to build our combined rainwater catchment, shelter, suntrap, & garden bower in the Community Garden, between now and Christmas. Every week we’ll make progress, and share it here.Last week we cleared the site and dug the post holes.Yesterday […]
Read More →Gatton School, located near Tooting Broadway, have been coming to the Community Garden every week since March as part of their Outdoor Learning programme. At the moment we have Year One and Year Six staff and children taking part, alongside TTT volunteers.Between now and the end of term in December, we are running two projects: the […]
Read More →TTT joined this bi-annual conference yesterday at the University Hospital, Coventry. The Wildflife Garden Forum is a voluntary UK-wide group including local and national projects and charities, researchers and academics, local authorities and government agencies. The Forum’s intention is to share evidence and practice about the value of wildlife to gardening (and people) – and vice versa. […]
Read More →In the beautiful weather of Sunday 6th October we made tea at the Community Garden using our volcano kettle, trying out some of the wild plants Mark Watson suggested during the Tooting Foodival. We sorted sunflower seeds for drying and sowing next year As well as enjoying cakes made with Garden brambles and local apples (thanks […]
Read More →Plenty in the Edible Garden at the weekend including this rather sorry looking but unperturbed fox cub! That garlic should be good for those striving to be crowned “Top Tooting Cook” at Foodival. Still plenty of time to enter, though judges have already ruled that “Renard du jardin communautaire au gratin” will not be a […]
Read More →The latest update is all about food and growing local – because we have the Edible Gardens Open Day on Sat 21st, and then the Foodival on Sept 28th & 29th. All welcome to both! In case you don’t receive our updates by email – you can read a copy by clicking here. Do mail […]
Read More →‘Edible Open Gardens Day’ celebrates local gardening and food, and is taking place across dozens of London gardens.Click here for Sustain’s blog about the event. We’re pleased to be taking part, and the Tooting Community Garden will be open for an extra day from 11:00 until 3:00 on Saturday 21st September.Please come and visit if you have not […]
Read More →Thanks a lot to the young people who came along to the garden for four and a half hours, in rain and sun (they are taking part in a Challenge Network programme).What did we do?The young people selected from a set of helpful jobs in the garden:> They ground our bread wheat into flourThey used creative ways […]
Read More →This Sunday July 21st, from 1130-1200, come along to help us plan our water use in the Community Garden.Maybe this weather will continue, or maybe not: in any case there are some practical short term and long term choices to be made linked with water use. What is doing well and what is not? Can we […]
Read More →It’s been dry – and now very hot – and both have had an impact in the garden – some plants have speeded up and gone quickly to seed, some have slowed down… There was lots to explore and to harvest: we cleared the broad beans and the garlic; we chatted; we looked at insect […]
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