Top Tooting Cook, the Tooting Foodival‘s fun local cooking competition is ably co-ordinated by ‘firm but fair’ Belinda. Using locally-grown fruit and vegetables which you can collect from us on 14th September, you make your dish overnight and then bring it to the competition at the Foodival on Saturday 15th. See the details of […]
Read More →Here at Transition Town Tooting we love a chance to celebrate – and we don’t mind a good birthday cake either! Last month was our annual general meeting and party, the perfect opportunity to reflect on the past year, look forward to the future and celebrate the now. We had feedback from some of our […]
Read More →Here is this year’s montage of growers from the Tooting Foodival 2017, the 10th TTT Foodival – wow, the first one only seemed like the other day! We are really grateful to all our donors of fruit and vegetables without whom the festival could not happen. More on the Foodival blog about this years event […]
Read More →Did you try the sour plums at the Foodival? ‘These sour plums are known as shazifim yerakim in Israel, gojeh sabz in Iran, jarareng in Lebanon, erik in Turkey, and janarek in Jordan.’ These plums were saved after pruning the Greengage trees that grow in the tooting community garden as part of a pruning workshop. […]
Read More →There are new posts on our Foodival blog (click on that link) which follow up on two of the fun events at this year’s Tooting Foodival: celebrating local food together as a community.One post gives Minestra Supper Club’s recipe based on Elisabetta’s pasta-making demonstration.The other shares all the how-tos of our grow-you-own home seed-sprouting crusade.Do enjoy […]
Read More →Feast your eyes on these amazing photos of the #Foodival2016 Top Tooting Cook entries! All grown principally from donated home grown produce. More details on recipes and prize winners will follow … but I thought you’d like to see this hot off the press! Thank you to Charles for these stunning shots. There’ll be some […]
Read More →Don’t miss the Foodival 2016 Soup Disco at Tooting Market this evening. Low food mile sustainable veg peeled, chopped and cooked up into a community feast to the sound of classic dance beats. You couldn’t make it up! Well you can if you come tonight … Optional checklist: peeler, glitter, apron, platform shoes, wig, chopping board, friend, […]
Read More →Foodival Growers Foodival Day One brought a glut of locally grown fruit and veg for the Top Tooting Cook competition and tomorrow’s Soup Disco at Tooting Market. See the Foodival blog for more.
Read More →The Tooting #Foodival2016 starts Saturday 10th from 1300-1700 This is the ninth year we’ve run the Tooting Foodival, and every year we call out to local gardeners for home-grown donations. Every year we’re amazed at the range and quality of what gets grown locally by beginners and experts in backyards or pots, on balconies or […]
Read More →This year’s Foodival culminates in a Soup Disco in Tooting Market on Sunday night at 7pm. What are you wearing and what veg are you chopping? Send us a picture inspired by veg and disco (see above!). Bring a peeler and your dancing shoes, DJ till 10 pm, Unwined and Graveney Gin will both be […]
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