TTT is delighted to launch Growing Tooting, a new project to promote community gardening in Tooting and nearby neighbourhoods. This is a year-long project which aims to attract more people into growing healthy local food. You may be familiar with some of the benefits of community growing, for instance: Socialising with a shared interest Improving […]
Read More →Over on the Foodival blog we have been rounding up the stories from this year’s sustainable food event in Tooting. There’s a Balham woman who grew bananas … Bananas grown by Susan in her Balham back garden And Sophie was the new face winning the prestige title of Top Tooting Cook 2015 with her beautiful […]
Read More →All welcome to our free Garden Open Day! There’s plenty to join in with: > For the third year running we’re part of the Open Gardens and Squares London-wide weekend. > Aesop Grimm is telling intriguing stories.> We’re linked in with the local Furzedown Festival, and the Furzedown Oak Community Project will start to shape […]
Read More →Here is tweet number twelve:No.12 tips for Xmas. Celebrate Xmas eve with some English wine from Kent or locally brewed beer from By The Horns! pic.twitter.com/A1c75HsVtt And…that’s the last of our twelve seasonal sustainability tweets: each one from a different person, saying something she or he wants to share that fits with this time of year. […]
Read More →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, […]
Read More →TTT Co-chair, Belinda Sosinowicz blogs her first experiences of the new Foodcycle venture starting this month in Tooting. According to Foodcycle (2013) an estimated 400,000 tonnes of useable surplus food can be saved from UK supermarkets each year [1], or in other words, 400,000 tonnes of food is wasted by supermarkets that could otherwise be […]
Read More →Our monthly ‘First Tuesday’ meeting on 7th June met at Mushkil Aasaan – with many thanks for the use of the hall. Belinda, Tim & Charles used games and discussion to explore some of the interrelated features of the food we buy and grow – its nutritional value, its availability locally-grown, its ‘carbon footprint’, its degree […]
Read More →With Spring fast approaching TTTs Food Group have been busily preparing for the new growing season! to celebrate this the Food Group are having a community food and growing event on Tuesday the 5th of April at Mushkil Assann on Upper Tooting Road between 7 and 9pm. For the event we need lots and lots […]
Read More →Tuesday’s food and seed swap event attracted a good crowd and provoked a wide range of food growing discussion. Giles Read reviewed TTT’s past Foodivals, talked about plans for Foodival 2010, showed a film and gave away a collection of tools refurbished by inmates at Wandsworth Prison. The Tools Shed project takes broken tools collected […]
Read More →Just a quick reminder about next Tuesday’s Food Event and Seed Swap. After looking at last year’s Foodival there’ll be a short film on the “Story of Food” and how you can grow for this Autumn’s festival. To get everyone kick started there will be some FREE tools to give away and also a Seed […]
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