We're very excited about TTT's
ninth annual Tooting Foodival which is all about
Celebrating Local Food Together as a Community.
We're planning the details now - here's a snapshot preview.
Plenty more information to come later on.
'Local food plus local community' is the weekend's theme:
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| I Grew This! (Foodival 2015) |
Saturday 10th Sept activities run from from 1pm to 5pm and are based at Mushkil Aasaan, 222 Upper Tooting Road SW17 7EW.
On Saturday we welcome all local growers to share and donate some of their local produce - maybe a bag of potatoes, or a single chilli pepper...whatever you would like to share.
Mark where you've been growing on our
Growing Tooting Map.
We'll take your photo proudly holding your fruit or veg for our 2016
I Grew This! poster and we'll display what's shared.
Where will all this wonderful donated local produce go?
Top Tooting Cook!
First, donated produce goes to anyone who wants to enter our fun
Top Tooting Cook event. Take some produce or recipes away (or cook with what you have
grown at home), and bring back what you make on Sunday for the
light-hearted judging and more at Mushkil Aasaan from 4 to 7pm.
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| The TTC hat - not the only prize you might win |
Show off your culinary skills using fruit and veg grown locally
and you could win a prize... and the coveted title
"Top Tooting Cook"!
Find out all about the competition
here and get in touch with
Belinda to enter.
For inspiration, look at these delicious dishes - sorrel soup, risotto with cavolo nero,
fava bean toast with egg - cooked by visitors to the Tooting
Community Garden, using produce picked that day!
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| Thanks Naomi,
Charles and Janine. |
Soup Disco!
Second, local produce donated on Saturday will go to
Sunday evening's Soup Disco
party from 7pm to 10pm in Tooting Market, 21-23 Tooting High Street SW17 0SN.
From 7pm, we will all starting chopping the veg to make our delicious Tooting soups for a shared meal. And throughout this collective cook-up, our top local DJ will be spinning the tunes so you can show off your dance skills as well as your kitchen skills.
Beginners welcome
throughout... fabulous outfits very welcome!
Plus, some Graveney Gin and Unwined will also be open for business - it's going to be a memorable night!
Other activities for all ages on Saturday at Mushkil Aasaan from 1pm to 5pm will include:
Celebrate reducing waste and having fun by displaying your
Ugly Veg. Or as it's called in the USA:
Produce with Personality.
Learn about
urban beekeeping, taste SW12 and SW17 honey and get close to bees. Local beekeeper Richard is bringing a demonstration hive of live bees. He can chat about bees & honey - and about sources of info for planting and gardening to encourage bees and other pollinators.
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| Sprouted teff seed |
Practice being a
successful home farmer by sprouting seeds - easy and delicious. Fresh seeds sprouted at home only have to travel a few inches
'from plot to plate'.
NO food miles!
Play our fun
low carbon living games including exploring food's footprint and much more.
Get hands-on and creative with
crafts linked to food and the Soup Disco - all ages can come and enjoy making.
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| In the garden... |
Explore the
local network of community gardens
which can offer you fun, exercise, friendship, time outdoors in nature and a place to grow
healthy local food.
Plus, you will pick up plenty of growing advice and encouragement to grow your own fresh food on window sill, a balcony or
in a front garden.
Discuss the other
local sustainability projects that Transition Tooting facilitates with many different partners, find out how to get involved - and we welcome your suggestions and new ideas.
All welcome to #Foodival2016!
As usual we will be collecting donations of locally grown fruit and vegetables at Mushkil Aasaan on Saturday and there'll be a chance to enter the Top Tooting Cook and Ugly Vegetable competitions, as well as check out many other food related goings on.
Have your photo taken in the I Grew This frame or enter your misshapen marrow in the Ugly Veg competition. Perhaps you could enter the Top Tooting Cook competition? Volker Nissen from Volker & Quinn will be doing cooking demos and you'll be able to taste what he cooks.
The produce will be gathered and given to local restaurants and cooks for tomorrow's big day out at Samaj Hall where there'll be music, stalls, a Giant Pea, lots of locally cooked, locally grown dishes to try and we'll find out who really is the ugliest veg of all - competition winners win meals for two at local restaurants, so why not join in for a chance to win.
