Tooting Foodival 2009

Last Sunday saw the second annual Tooting Foodival, arranged by Transition Town Tooting.  TTT aims to
“…bring together the people of Tooting and surrounding communities to develop a plan to transition to a life beyond our dependency on oil.”
Practically, this means lowering the collective carbon footprint of the town by encouraging greener modes of transport, food [...]

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Tooting life – The River Wandle

It is amazing what people do in their spare time.  Dressing in green rubber waders from the waist down, and a Stabilo yellow jacket from the waist up would not be my usual choice of attire on a Sunday afternoon, but this week-end many Wandsworth residents will be trying it for size.
The River Wandle is [...]

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Fruit and nut map

This is a nice idea.  A google map that you can edit, to plot the locations of trees which overhang public areas in South London, which bear edible fruit and nuts.
Permission often needs to be obtained, but it’s a very good starting point.  I’m going pear picking on a nearby road this week, now I [...]

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Project Dirt and the Tooting Harvest Foodival

Summer may be over (I think I blinked and missed it), but grow-your-own continues to flourish in London. 
This afternoon I’m off to speak to Seb from Food Up Front for another City Bumpkin podcast.  Food Up Front is a brilliant project, encouraging people to grow their own food in their front gardens, back gardens, balconies, window boxes, wherever. 
Whilst I was pottering [...]

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10 Downing Street

I see that my neighbour Gordon Brown has a new blog, and it seems he’s also a garden blogger.  He has uploaded some photos of the Number 10 garden during the summer bloom.  There are some lovely foxgloves, fuscias, and agapanthus, and a particularly pristine lawn.  I think there’s a big old garden roller hiding [...]

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