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 →Twenty people joined in this partnership project’s Design Workshops held on 10 & 11 March: connecting, analysing, sharing, debating. We did just what we needed to do. We were a mixed group of experts, the interested and novices navigating explanations, challenges, concentration, humour and insights: We analysed the diverse settings that local gardeners are using […]
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 →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 […]
Read More →All went well in the second weekend of our free workshops devoted to growing our own good local food – one class each in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth. (Details of the Growing Tooting programme here). What did we do last weekend? We compared everyone’s window-sill grown pea plants, 2 weeks after sowing. Different conditions (amount […]
Read More →On March 18th & 20th we started Growing Tooting by launching our new free series of 8 classes on learning to grow your own local city food by participating and sharing with others in your neighbourhood. That’s 8 classes in each of 3 locations in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth. Many thanks to Martin for the tireless […]
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