Community Garden in London SW16 run by Transition Town Tooting. Come down and get your hands dirty!
Since September we have had Year One groups coming every week to the Community Garden. It was a great run of sessions, and we didn’t miss a day because of bad weather. All credit to the children, staff and volunteers.Now we have Reception and Year Six children coming each week until the end of term. We’ll […]
Read More →This week we embarked on our next garden-based project with Year 6 students and teachers from Gatton Primary School in Tooting. This follows the Rainwater Catchment and Cold Frame projects of last year, as reported in this blog and on the education page of Issue 6 in the Transition Free Press. What is an Insect […]
Read More →Jenny and Rose hatched a plan to do a group effort on our leaves and compost: shift the heaps around, do some finicky work and try out ideas and new skills too. We did other jobs too – many thanks to all, and to Steph for cake. However for photographing I was enchanted by just one story….. […]
Read More →On Sunday 15th June the Tooting Community Garden took part in the Open Garden Squares Weekend. Usually open on Sundays between 11 and 1 when anyone is welcome to come along, on the Open Day we were open all day long with a whole host of events including storytelling, human snail races, cycle for a song, […]
Read More →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: Year Six children planning how to construct the cold frame The article is about Project […]
Read More →Yesterday’s Community Garden Open Day was a lot of fun, and we’ll bring you some more updates and photos soon. Panorama in mid afternoon More than a hundred people came along: almost all of them for the first time, which is exactly the idea. There was a super diversity of visitors’ interests and we had […]
Read More →On June 15th, as part of the Open Garden Squares weekend, TTT presents the Tooting Community Garden Open Day & Father’s Day Fete at the Community Garden, 5 North Drive, not far the Lido. Come and discover for yourself this hidden garden paradise. It’s free, naturally, and there are events for all ages including story-telling, […]
Read More →TTT people have made six fascinating garden visits (well five visits to new gardens, and our garden seems fresh every day). We want to share our impressions of things that excited us in many settings, from diverse and creative points of view, all of which can inspire our growing in Tooting. Yes we are only showing snapshots – on another […]
Read More →The clocks are about to go forward and it’s officially spring time! We celebrated the start of a new growing season by donating and swapping over one hundred packets of seeds with local people on Saturday. The event aimed to encourage and support people, young and old, in growing food and flowers in whatever space […]
Read More →Keen gardeners and even those with not-so-green fingers are invited to come along to a Spring growing celebration and seed swap, this Saturday 22nd March in Tooting. The event will aim to show how easy it can be to grow your own produce, even if you don’t have a garden or allotment. Click 4 Flyer […]
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