Heads up & a date for the diary, for an early spring celebration in the Tooting Community Garden. On March 1st, we will be running a Seed and Plant Swap. Bring any spare plants or seeds you would like to swap or donate to others. It is fine to turn up with absolutely nothing and […]
Read More →A Grower 2018 This year’s Tooting Foodival includes some new features alongside some familar favourites. We start this coming Friday evening with donations of fruit and vegetables from local growers. Can you spare anything from your allotment, window box or garden? These donations are used by our chefs to cook up a great sustainable feast […]
Read More →There are over two growing months until the Tooting Foodival. That’s plenty of time to grow local vegetables from scratch to donate or cook for the Foodival community festival on September 14th. What can you grow well in your garden, containers or window box in a couple of months?Who can you get involved? There’s a […]
Read More →TTT is running its 11th sustainable food festival – the Tooting Foodival – this September! This year’s Foodival poster celebrates the core elements of growing, cooking and eating! If you are a connoisseur of any of these activities we urge you to get involved in this year’s festival either as a grower donating some home […]
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 →We’re reporting back every six weeks on the Gardens of Refuge Project. That’s our local project running throughout 2017 with refugees and asylum-seekers living in and nearby Tooting, alongside our project partners CARAS and The Grange.Our previous summary at the end of May can be read here.In June and July we’ve worked with the CARAS […]
Read More →4 days to go to Tooting’s Pop-Up Village Green comes to life at the Bus Turning Circle, Longmead Road. We’d love for everyone in Tooting to come along to the Tooting Twirl on Sunday to celebrate all the cultures of our town, make a grey space green and have a good dose of fun by […]
Read More →We’re sharing our monthly update about Gardens of Refuge.Gardens of Refuge is our 2017 partnership project with CARAS and The Grange to provide therapeutic and positive experiences for people of refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds who live in South-West London.There are four interrelated project strands to share:> Carpentry project with the Youth Club > Family Activity […]
Read More →All the plants shared out through Pollinator Paths Wandsworth are settling into their new homes – a delightful fact to think about when you consider there are 60 participant plots in the borough! June 4th: As part of the PPW project we’re offering a diverse set of free monthly workshops at the 4 project hub […]
Read More →We had a fun, busy and instructive Sunday afternoon meeting the local participants in the Pollinator Paths Wandsworth project, and welcoming visitors who found us because we joined in with the Chelsea Fringe and Wandsworth Arts Fringe. Getting the new planter home People told us they appreciated being able to have a detailed and friendly […]
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