Community Garden in London SW16 run by Transition Town Tooting. Come down and get your hands dirty!
Do come and have a closer look on Sunday 30th June for Emily’s outdoor storytelling and music session from 2:30-4:15 (see post below). There’s a good forecast!You’ll also see there is more to enjoy here….come along from 11:00 to 1:00 on the 30th if you would like to join in with the gardening. All welcome!
Read More →During the afternoon of Sunday 30th June, lay down your trowels and spades and come to the Tooting Community Garden for a couple of hours of outdoor storytelling, music and cakes with Emily Duizend and friends. (Emily also took part in the Garden Open Day on June 9th). All welcome, and we’ll be collecting for […]
Read More →The TTT Community Garden was open to the public as part of the Open Garden Squares weekend last Sunday. Regular garden volunteer, Jenny Teasdale, reports. It was a time of excitement and reflection when we opened the garden to celebrate our second birthday, linking up with Open Garden Squares weekend and the Chelsea Fringe. All the […]
Read More →We’re a surprising community vegetable garden within a hidden-away space that we share with exuberant native trees and plants, just off Tooting Common at 5 North Drive, SW16 1RN. Look out for the signs.It’s our second birthday this weekend, and do come and visit our Open Day on Sunday, being held in conjunction with two great London-wide initiatives: […]
Read More →I’ll let the pictures do the talking: 48 hours of local creative activities by the Wandle, in the Community Garden, on Tooting Common. The ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ by the Wandle opposite the Ram Brewery ‘It’s a Wandleful Life’: opening the Wandsworth Arts Festival The climbing frame: freshly painted by Gatton School ‘Wish you were here’ […]
Read More →From window sill to garden This year’s spring wheat The garden will be open next Sunday (the Bank Holiday weekend) from 11:00 – 1:00 Do come along: we’re at 5 North Drive, on the south side of Tooting Common
Read More →Thanks to the dozen people who came along today!We’ll let the photos tell the story – and too bad we missed taking pictures of us emptying dozens of bags of rotted leaves… Sorting seeds by smartphone New bed New path
Read More →We’re learning with Gatton SchoolWe are really delighted to be hosting an exciting new programme of visits by children and staff from Gatton School in Tooting to our Community Garden near Tooting Common. This project has developed quickly since the first meetings in February: there is a lot of goodwill on all sides, and everyone […]
Read More →A dozen helpers came along to the Community garden today (well, two of them were dogs…) We: finished digging a new plot, sowed 4 different kinds of bread wheat, planted potatoes, cleared up the herb patch, sowed radishes, shifted some ancient logs about to make seats in the ‘secret corner’, spread some […]
Read More →On October 8th we had our TTT monthly open public meeting, focused on Growing in the City – growing plants, food, relationships, skills, connections, enterprises, awareness of nature… We looked at a dozen examples of diverse local London garden and growing projects….. We discussed what they are aiming to achieve, and what ‘drivers for change’ (urban biodiversity […]
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