We’re continuing the glimpses into what we’re covering in our current series of informal Carbon Conversations. Here is the fifth…Participant Ben has written his own response to this week’s meeting, all about exploring carbon reduction in our Food. Ben’s comments:” Monday evening in Tooting….cold, damp with a mid-summer mist clinging to the trees across the common. And here we are, […]

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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 […]

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A dozen helpers came along to the Community garden today (well, two of them were dogs…)         We: finished digging a new plot, sowed 4 different kinds of bread wheat, planted potatoes, cleared up the herb patch, sowed radishes, shifted some ancient logs about to make seats in the ‘secret corner’, spread some […]

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(The title means ‘fruit-trees in Görli’….) On Saturday 6th April I was in Berlin, and was lucky to be able to join a local fruit-tree planting session along with my daughter. Coming in late after all the preparation had been done, we got involved with planting,and with making the timber protection / supports for the trees. […]

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Two of us from TTT joined the Wildlife Gardening Forum on 28 November – a hundred people face to face from many sectors and all sizes of organisation: government departments, researchers, urban farmers, scientists, community enterprises, architects, ‘green infrastructure’ experts…and individual gardeners. The programme (see it here.) was an excellent fit with local steps to a sustainable […]

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