Ten days ago the fabulous OaKomotion! travelling Carnival promenaded all round Furzedown. The whole amazing sunny event was based on the sucess of the Furzedown Oak Community Project. In the Project community artists and host groups adopted sections of the large American Oak felled locally. Then they created sculptures to give the oak a rich and […]
Read More →Carbon Conversations is back! Our new series of six free meetings in April & May in SW16 – organised by TTT’s Ben Cuddon. The six facilitated workshops enable individuals to explore how they can reduce their personal carbon footprints. The meetings bring together small groups of local people to discuss the areas of our lives […]
Read More →It’s the end of the project year for our partnership with the CARAS team and the refugees and asylum-seekers they serve. Of course we are going to do more all together in 2018, and we’re planning that now. Yesterday was the end-of-year CARAS Saturday Youth Club party, enjoyed by over 50 young people and volunteers. […]
Read More →Leo’s Garden, the highly-valued and hidden-away balcony garden at South Thames College in Tooting held a celebratory event this week. STC staff and friends marked two years on from its opening (see our 2015 blog report here) and did some autumn planting. This kind of local oasis is so relevant to a new study published […]
Read More →This time last year we were in the middle of the voting period for the Aviva Community Fund, where the Gardens of Refuge joint project with the Tooting charity CARAS won £10,000 – thanks to the votes of many friends near and far. This time last year…the voting was hot! We’re nearing the end of […]
Read More →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 […]
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 →On October 3rd the opening night of the Stay With Love exhibition at The Sound Lounge in Tooting saw a very diverse group of 75 join in to celebrate the exhibition. There were teenagers, families and young children from the asylum-seeking and refugee community who are served by CARAS. There were many of the CARAS […]
Read More →We’re thrilled that the Stay With Love exhibition has moved from concept to reality alongside our partners CARAS and The Sound Lounge. We experienced so much energy, creativity and patience from all the volunteers and staff involved in this experiment: Thank You! We hung the show on the 2nd October, and then the exhibition opening […]
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 […]
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