After the long haul of communicating near and far for voting in the Aviva Community Fund last year, winning funding in January, and getting on with the planning for 2017…we’ve begun the project! Our first session with the CARAS refugee and asylum-seekers has been a Family Activity Day on Valentine’s Day..It was a familiar mother-and-children […]
Read More →Tonight is the TTT 2016 Gardening Celebration – plus we’re looking forward to exciting things in 2017. The event is at The Selkirk near Tooting Broadway from 7:00 pm. To celebrate the celebration:here are five current growing, gardening and sustainability events and ideas to follow up even if you can’t make it tonight: 1 TTT […]
Read More →“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” (Audrey Hepburn) We are thrilled that Gardens of Refuge, our new partnership project plan has reached the final public voting stage of the Aviva Community Fund! The project is centred on the refugee and asylum-seeker community who are supported by the Tooting charity CARAS. Read the […]
Read More →Early in May we held a delightful celebration of three years’ shared experience of the outdoor learning project between Gatton Primary School and Tooting Community Garden. You can look at that blog report by clicking here. The sun shone on us all and lit the mosaic made at the school with every pupil involved. Among the natural images […]
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 →TTT is delighted to launch Growing Tooting, a new project to promote community gardening in Tooting and nearby neighbourhoods. This is a year-long project which aims to attract more people into growing healthy local food. You may be familiar with some of the benefits of community growing, for instance: Socialising with a shared interest Improving […]
Read More →That’s right. It’s less than a month until South London’s favourite sustainable food festival – Tooting Foodival! Over on the Foodival blog, we’re ramping up the announcements – letting you know about all the great things that will be happening over the weekend, and all the great people who make Foodival the glorious local festival […]
Read More →Are you growing for the Foodival? Unfortunately so are the caterpillars! They are causing havoc on the local cabbage patches!Foodival is TTT’s sustainable celebration of local growing, local cooking and all things food related, taking place this year over the weekend of September 12th & 13th. There will be a competition for weird looking vegetables, […]
Read More →All welcome to our free Garden Open Day! There’s plenty to join in with: > For the third year running we’re part of the Open Gardens and Squares London-wide weekend. > Aesop Grimm is telling intriguing stories.> We’re linked in with the local Furzedown Festival, and the Furzedown Oak Community Project will start to shape […]
Read More →Here is tweet number eleven: No.11 #Xmas Tip: save your Xmas veg peelings for some lovely compost and start growing for 2015! #Tooting #Transition
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