We’ve enjoyed and learned so much from our partnership project with CARAS which has been running since spring 2015.Here’s Update #2 on one more of the project strands – this one involving the CARAS Women’s Group for refugees and asylum-seekers. We shared Update #1 a fortnight ago – read it here. The knitted honeybees of […]

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We’re very pleased to invite everyone who loves urban gardening with insects and other wildlife in mind to our free Pollinator Paths Wandsworth Project Harvest Celebration. This is a celebration sharing ideas, experience, fun, citizen science and community. Here’s the basic info about the project which has been running all year, linking together dozens of […]

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Twenty people joined in this partnership project’s Design Workshops held on 10 & 11 March: connecting, analysing, sharing, debating. We did just what we needed to do. We were a mixed group of experts, the interested and novices navigating explanations, challenges, concentration, humour and insights: We analysed the diverse settings that local gardeners are using […]

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Are you looking forward to gardening for wildlife in 2017? We recently announced the exciting new Pollinator Paths Wandsworth project, and we’ve been posting updates on Facebook and tweeting. The next step is to run the two free Design Workshops this week  One this Friday, one on Saturday. This is where the discussion will take […]

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This is a new and imaginative project that is being launched now and will run throughout 2017. Pollinator Paths Wandsworth is all about encouraging local gardeners to establish small patches as wildlife havens. Several community gardens are involved, so there will be plenty of support. It’s going to be a good project to strengthen growing links […]

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Lovely Green Drinks in Tooting last night at The Selkirk, thanks for hosting!  We got to know the London National Park City initiative better and asked how we would raise London’s green cover from 48% (current) to 51%???? Our answer is…, Parklets! Green up the base of trees, hand over 1 car parking space to […]

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Sharing two inspiring projects! Both projects aim to demonstrate and create something that is beautiful and functional, creating results which please people and show that sustainability is achievable and attractive now. One is in Tooting: a front garden restoration that takes into account affordability and biodiversity. One is north London-based: an bamboo bicycle enterprise which is […]

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‘Bringing Nature Closer to Home’ is the tagline of the Wildlife Gardening Forum, which held its tenth anniversary meeting yesterday at the Natural History Museum in London. Several of us from Tooting and TTT attended – along with 80 other gardeners, enterprises, government agencies, charities and community groups. It’s always a stimulating day (available to […]

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