On Sunday the Tooting participants in the Pollinator Paths Wandsworth project are collecting their plants to grow on during 2017. Come to the Community Garden at 5 North Road, SW16 1RN between 12:00 midday and 4:00 pm. Some of the beautiful plants that project participants can grow on at home We’ll advise you on how to […]
Read More →We’d like to welcome everyone to the Tooting Community Garden on Sunday 21st May from 12:00 to 4:00 for our free Pollinator Party!Find us at 5 North Drive, SW16 1RN. What’s a Pollinator Party?It’s a lovely afternoon in the garden. We’re mixing together fun and instructive activities that focus on planting, beneficial insects and sharing […]
Read More →We’re continuing to facilitate workshops as part of the Gardens of Refuge project with refugees and asylum-seekers who use the local services of CARAS in Tooting. This is the project for which our partnership won funding from Aviva – via the public voting so many people joined last autumn. The emphasis of Gardens of Refuge […]
Read More →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 […]
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