This week is the home straight for voting online for funding support for Gardens of Refuge at the Aviva Community Fund. It will come down to our tally of votes at the end of 18th November, and of course the other ‘Aviva projects’ are also doing a push this week. Please vote by Friday 12:00 for […]
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 →Sharing two inspiring projects! Both projects aim to demonstrate and create something that is beautiful and functional, creating results which please people and show that sustainability is achievable and attractive now. One is in Tooting: a front garden restoration that takes into account affordability and biodiversity. One is north London-based: an bamboo bicycle enterprise which is […]
Read More →In the final local growing sessions in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth we celebrated progress and looked at what comes next now the programme is complete. We discussed harvesting and preparing food (and bringing any surpluses to the Tooting Foodival), and asked about what the participants might need next in their growing journey. Suggestions so far: ‘local […]
Read More →In 2015 TTT helped facilitate a research project by the University of Westminster all about the impact of urban heatwaves – for the details please see past blog posts by clicking here on Urban Heat. TTT worked with the researchers and with many local partners in Tooting: voluntary and community groups plus borough-level and statutory […]
Read More →Here’s the report from the seventh weekend of our Growing Tooting ‘grow your own food’ local fortnightly classes. We’ve been offering these in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth since April. The common themes this week have been exploring more ambitious planting schemes, visiting other local gardens, and looking at forest gardening. So: here’s a group planting […]
Read More →Last weekend we enjoyed the sixth crop of fortnightly ‘triple-header’ Growing Tooting workshops – one each in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth. (Plus there’s the fourth series: an extra Wandsworth group running on the intervening weekends).As ever, thanks to Martin for the energy and co-ordination! What did we do this week?As a comprehensive gardening topic we […]
Read More →Gardeners in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth are seeing results in the soil, in trying out new skills and having some fun together.As our fortnightly free Growing Tooting classes continue, have a look below at what we’ve been doing, and do get in touch to share ideas or with any queries. Very proud gardeners! Basil seedlings […]
Read More →The fourth weekend in our fortnightly series of workshops on growing your own local food was fun and successful. We’re half way through the run of 8 workshops at each of the sites. The Balham-Tooting-Wandsworth structure is stimulating as there are differences and common ground in the settings and interests – plus there’s healthy cross-pollination […]
Read More →The third weekend in our practical, sociable and free Growing Tooting workshops went well in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth. A fourth ‘waiting list’ group starts on the 24th April in Wandsworth. Please scroll down this blog to see our earlier posts. At this stage of our classes, participants have seeds sown or seedlings coming through in their […]
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