Community Garden in London SW16 run by Transition Town Tooting. Come down and get your hands dirty!
All welcome, and all activities are free: Meet the Tooting Community Garden team and local growers in your area Pick up seeds, swap seeds, plant seeds and celebrate growing food and flowers in any space Activities – story telling, flower making, paper making from wheat straw grown in garden, and seed sowing Help us map […]
Read More →On a sunny day, after 7 weeks with mean temperatures a couple of degrees warmer than normal, it’s easy to hope that spring is here. (But last year there was a hard frost in March). Have a look below at some encouraging views in the Community Garden today: Robin’s-eye view: autumn-sown garlic is looking good We […]
Read More →Celebrating the Community Garden & Gatton School rain water catchment project. In November and December 2013 we posted blog reports about the ‘Big Build’ project that we’ve been doing in the garden with Year Six children and staff from Gatton School, and with TTT volunteers. We ran this for seven weeks, and today we managed to […]
Read More →This weekend it’s the winter solstice.From now on the days start to get longer – slowly at first, just seconds per day. Yes it’s still winter, and the coldest weather is still to come – but for gardeners this is an exciting time! Over the next few weeks, come along to the Tooting Community Garden and you […]
Read More →Gatton School’s Year Six classes have had two more amazing sessions, on the 3rd and 10th December. While the rainwater catchment in the Tooting Community Garden – ‘The Build’ – has been growing fast, children have been trying out some of the skills involved. The pictures can tell the story:Year Six were practicing cutting timber joints on 3rd […]
Read More →During this week’s session, the Year Six children caught up with the progress achieved by the previous school groups: raising the six main uprights for the rainwater catchment build, having set the posts in concrete (see earlier Updates below in this blog). Spot the socket wrench What was the next job?Making the roof trusses to support the roof […]
Read More →Even though the year is moving into winter, there’s six ‘new beginnings’ to share with you below. We hope to see you at these events – all welcome to come along and maybe try something new.. 1 On Tuesday 26th November we are starting to plan for the 2014 Tooting Foodival. Do join us and suggest some new […]
Read More →This week’s garden sessions with Gatton School saw two very different events. 60 Year 1 children went on a “Bear Hunt” set out by their teachers around the site, while a more regular group of 15 Year 6 children helped clear up autumn leaves, tidy up some beds for compost and continued with the Big […]
Read More →One of the outdoor learning projects we are carrying out with Gatton School’s Year Six class is helping to build our combined rainwater catchment, shelter, suntrap, & garden bower in the Community Garden, between now and Christmas. Every week we’ll make progress, and share it here.Last week we cleared the site and dug the post holes.Yesterday […]
Read More →Gatton School, located near Tooting Broadway, have been coming to the Community Garden every week since March as part of their Outdoor Learning programme. At the moment we have Year One and Year Six staff and children taking part, alongside TTT volunteers.Between now and the end of term in December, we are running two projects: the […]
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