Tonight is the TTT 2016 Gardening Celebration - plus we're looking forward to exciting things in 2017. The event is at
The Selkirk near Tooting Broadway from 7:00 pm.
To celebrate the celebration:
here are five current growing, gardening and sustainability events and ideas to follow up even if you can't make it tonight:
1 TTT attended the bi-annual Wildlife Gardening Forum last week at the Natural History Museum. This is always an amazing and cross-cutting event with around 100 participants - private gardeners, schools, local authorities, biodiversity and growing charities, researchers, enterprises.
The theme this time was learning from European experience in Germany, Belgium, Austria the Netherlands, Ireland (oh, and Scotland).
Why learn from Europe? Click on the photo...
We learned a German word -
schwammstadt - meaning 'sponge city'. A sponge city is redesigned to be responsive and adaptive to climate change impact and allow for more natural rainfall retention, reducing runoff. (See the event on December 8th in para 4 below).
Anyone can attend the Forum; it's a great day when you can meet experts and work out what ideas you can use yourself. And all the presentations appear for free on the
WLGF website in due course.
2 TTT joined Capital Growth's 'Roots to Growth' workshop.

We looked at the experience and potential of farming as an enterprise within London.
There's tons of good info on the
Capital Growth site - all these reports are free downloads.
While the pleasure and impact of growing together is not only about saving money and managing our budgets,
what do you think is the annual value of the crops grown by 2000 London gardens linked to Capital Growth? Include crops for sharing, not only veg which are sold, so you can include Tooting Community Garden's pumpkins in the calculation. Have a guess - the answer is at the end of this blog.
We could take up the challenge of recording our crops - see the
Harvest-ometer from Sustain.
This kind of data is very valuable in order to be able to make our case for more growing in London!
TTT's friend Mark at
Vertical Veg has documented the equivalent value of what he grows -
click here to read about it.