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 […]
Read More →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 →Plenty in the Edible Garden at the weekend including this rather sorry looking but unperturbed fox cub! That garlic should be good for those striving to be crowned “Top Tooting Cook” at Foodival. Still plenty of time to enter, though judges have already ruled that “Renard du jardin communautaire au gratin” will not be a […]
Read More →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 […]
Read More →(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. […]
Read More →On October 8th we had our TTT monthly open public meeting, focused on Growing in the City – growing plants, food, relationships, skills, connections, enterprises, awareness of nature… We looked at a dozen examples of diverse local London garden and growing projects….. We discussed what they are aiming to achieve, and what ‘drivers for change’ (urban biodiversity […]
Read More →Together we grow this! A big thank you to all the donors of lovely fruit and veg at today’s Foodival. Don’t miss the cooked up dishes tomorrow at Tooting Market.
Read More →The TTT Community Garden looked a hive of industry when I dropped by this lunchtime. As a result of our intrepid garden volunteers’ efforts lots of lovely-looking vegetables are ripening or already ready to harvest. Here we have potatoes, tomatoes, radishes and even wheat; could a Tooting loaf soon be a possibility? There should be […]
Read More →This year’s Foodival takes place over the weekend of the 22nd & 23rd September. As in previous years we hope all you local gardeners and food growers have been as busy as this bee and will be able to donate any surplus produce you can spare. Local chefs and restaurants will use your hard won […]
Read More →Bring your Seeds and Gardening Needs! On April 6th TTT will be holding a Seed Swap and Food Growing event at Mushkil Aasaan from 7-9pm and the event needs YOU! Do you have any spare packets of seed lying around from last year? Do you have any unloved gardening tools or would you like some […]
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