Growing for the Foodival

Are you growing for the Foodival?  Unfortunately so are the caterpillars! They are causing havoc on the local cabbage patches!

Foodival is TTT's sustainable celebration of local growing, local cooking and all things food related, taking place this year over the weekend of September 12th & 13th.

There will be a competition for weird looking vegetables, something on fermentation, a schools cook off challenge, plenty of entertainment, including I am reliably informed a giant pea, as well as the usual features such as Top Tooting Cook and dishes to sample cooked by local restaurants.

Keep an eye on the Foodival blog for the latest information and keep growing for this year's event despite adversarial critters! 

No, not these people ... they are donors of home grown veg & fruit snapped at a previous Foodival.  Recognise anyone?  Fancy joining in this year?

Yes You Can!

Foodival Video & Press

Some snippets of video from the Foodival plus last week's Wandsworth Guardian article.  Thanks again to everyone who made this such a fantastic event for the 6th year in a row. Can't wait for the next one!  Please tell us what you thought about Foodival 2013 HERE.  Thanks!

Transition Town Tooting on the web

Each day in the week of October 1st, the Transition Network website posted informal reports from different London Transition groups.
Here is the link for a report from Transition Tooting:
https://www.transitionnetwork.org/stories/guest-blogger/2012-10/transition-town-tooting-five-ways-wellbeing
To view the other London accounts, click on 'Guest Bloggers'.

TTT appears in another Transition blog, in an account of a session we offered during the Transition Conference held in Battersea on Saturday Sept 15th. It was a section of the Treasuring Tooting Walk. There's that photo of feet in the Lido again!http://www.transitionnetwork.org/stories/mark-watson/2012-09/humans-flying-walking-backwards-future-and-dipping-our-feet-lido

And - remember the wonderful Tooting Transition Shop in Upper Tooting Road in May? A video of the nine-day project has been posted at https://vimeo.com/48938206

Happy viewing!

Smartphone video reporting - taster training next Tuesday 3rd July 2012

Ever fancied bypassing conventional media to talk directly to your own community and others all over the world? 
Here's your chance to learn how!
This practical workshop has been developed by Mark Barto from visionOntv, and Patrick Chalmers, authour of Fraudcast News.


Participants will learn to make short video reports for instant uploading to the web.

Please come along - and bring a friend plus their smartphone if you don't have your own phone!

The workshop will be held at Mushkil Aasaan, 222 Upper Tooting Road, SW17, from 7-9pm. For details on booking, and on the types of phone that can be used, click here

For details of other news highlighted in our latest 'TTT email', please click here
And if you would like to receive this regular TTT email yourself, please contact us on transitiontowntooting@gmail.com

Govt & TTT Both Committing on Climate Change

The government commits to 10:10:

The Government Signs-up to 10:10 from 10:10 on Vimeo.

while Tooting continues to commit to Carnival!

Trashcatching Workshops

Well done to everyone who was involved in last week's Trashcatching Workshops at Graveney School.  A short film of some of the action can be watched below! There will be more workshops over half term in February as we prepare for the big Trashcatchers' Carnival in Tooting on July 4th 2010. Any children or adults wishing to get involved, you can, it's free and we'd love to have you on board!

Tooting Harvest Foodival 2009 Highlights

Watch the video ...

And for more information, reports and all the pictures go to the Foodival Site

Tim Lang & Andrew Simms in Tooting

Last Thursday, TTT & Transition Town Wandsworth organised a discussion event with Tim Lang, Professor of Food Security at City University and Andrew Simms, Policy Director of the New Economics Foundation at Mushkil Aasaan. There was then some time to chat, brainstorm ideas and ask questions. A really enlightening evening with a good turnout. This video contains brief excerpts from the speakers.

And here are the post-it boards:

What Might Trashcatching Look Like?

A few excerpts from June's Trashcatching Procession at the BATCA Funday