Wandsworth Council’s May 2014 Brightside magazine has come though our doors, and the eagle-eyed will spot the nice short article with photo mentioning our Tooting Community Garden project with Gatton School. See it on page 8 of Brightside by clicking here.
Here’s the photo:
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| Year Six children planning how to construct the cold frame |
The article is about Project Dirt’s Wandsworth cluster for local projects: to have a look at over 90 projects, and join in, click here!.
We are well and truly into autumn, my lilac tree has shed most of its leaves and I can now see my neighbours garden again; winter feels close at hand. What’s news?
A good friend of TTT, Polly Higgins, recently made a very inspiring speech to the United Nations (UK and Northern Ireland) Climate Change Conference in Belfast calling for a Universal Declaration of Planetary Rights. You can keep up with progress on that campaign at the Trees Have Rights Too site. What a great idea. How can mankind really have superior Human Rights that are not balanced by the rights of every one of this Planet’s wondrous elements from trees to mountains to … even wasps? Yes why not, we can’t leave wasps out? Polly has a climate change speaker event at Conway Hall on Tuesday Nov 18th – details here.
This blog is just starting up and I know that all those involved with the TTT project would like to extend special thanks to the support that has so far been provided by the brilliant Project Dirt team who have been actively supporting TTT since its inception and providing a place on the web where people can go for information not just on Tooting but on loads of other environmental initiatives springing up across South London. Loads of interesting stuff on their site.
In Upper Tooting, (is that the posh part? oh I like to think so!) the tomatoes stayed resolutely green in our postage stamp garden so this “bacon & eggs is my speciality” bloke decided to try his hand at making spicy green tomato chutney for the first time. 
Made a mess but it was fun and initial tasting is promising! I’ll will update this blog with a health warning if anyone gets poisoned!
DT