Annual event of sharing locally grown food cooked by local chefs and restaurants.
October is our six-month anniversary as your Pips! As well as marking our half birthday, it’s a chance to catch a breath after the huge successes of the Tooting Twirl pop-up village green, our 10th annual Foodival sustainable food festival and countless other brilliant events this year. October’s meeting is about celebrating, checking in and […]
Read More →Well that was fun! What a great event the 10th Foodival proved to be. Using Hereward Road beside Mushkil Aasaan gave the event a really good flow. Outside, Volker manfully orchestrated the Big Feast, feeding the masses with sustainable locally grown fruit and vegetables, serenaded by the different artists on the Sound Lounge stage. Bees drew […]
Read More →So what’s happening at this year’s Foodival? Hopefully you’ve been keeping up with our recent blog posts and will have an idea, but for a handy print out or download version here’s our plan of the events. It’s not set in stone, some of the timings may move a little, don’t worry just come along […]
Read More →The Tooting Foodival celebrates local growing, cooking and eating together. It’s based on what people locally grow and donate – so we can all admire Tooting’s skills and productivity. Plus we can offer super ingredients to the Top Tooting Cook contest and the chefs’ delicious demonstrations. More info here. Sowing radishes Radishes harvested just 4 […]
Read More →For the 10th Foodival on September 16th we need lovely local growers to help us deliver this free menu to the streets of Tooting: Starter: Pakoras : Onions, cauliflower, courgette, spinach Main Course: Vegetable Stew : Onions, carrots, potatoes, turnips, peas and any other veg including tomatoes, garlic, herbs etc. Dessert: Fruit Crumble : Any […]
Read More →Tooting Foodival is back this autumn. What are you growing now that could be cooked up in 3 months time? On Saturday 16th September we’ll be celebrating the range of low food mile food that can be grown in and around SW17. Come along and join in, in whatever capacity you like. We guarantee it […]
Read More →Chuck’s Kale So some of us went vegetarian for the month of January and, for me, it proved surprisingly fun to try an alternative, more mindful way of feeding myself. 80 people shared experiences and recipes on the Vegetanuary facebook group and a celebratory feast was held at Vegan Express last week. Vegan Express Celebration […]
Read More →Tooting Foodival 2015 today received an inaugural Grow Wandsworth Award from Mayor of Wandsworth, Nicola Nardelli, who launched the awards to encourage people and organisations who grow healthy, fresh, local food in Community Food Projects. With Mayor Nicola at Wandsworth Town Hall At a reception in the Mayor’s Parlour at the Town Hall, including very beautiful […]
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 →Thank you to every veg and fruit donor, every restaurant cook, every great musician, every ugly vegetable, every volunteer, stall holder, artist, sponsor and Top Tooting Cook who made Foodival 2015 a fantastic celebration of home grown food cooked by local cooks. So many great connections made in a melting pot of south London’s food […]
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