Top Tooting Cook 2014

Could you be the next Top Tooting Cook?
 

Last year the culinary talents of many local cooks were on display in Tooting Market at the hotly contested inaugural Top Tooting Cook competition. This year we are expecting the competition to be even hotter with even more local cooks taking up the challenge.

It’s all in the name of fun, but also to show how locally grown, locally cooked food can be tastier and a whole lot healthier for you and for our environment. As part of the annual Foodival event, taking place this year on 13th/14th September, local growers donate produce from the gardens and window boxes of Tooting that we then distribute to cooks and restaurants to produce some truly local sustainable dishes.  

You can collect some of this home grown produce on Sat 13th or use anything tasty you have growing to create your Top Tooting Cook entry.  Bring your creations back on Sun 14th when the tastiest dishes with the lowest food miles will win some fabulous prizes, with the winner crowned “Top Tooting Cook”.

Please get in touch with Mal if you are interested in taking part or in finding out more.  

Email: malsaraw@gmail.com

Travel and Transport: Carbon Conversations Meeting 4

Jenny has posted her response below to the most recent meeting in our 'CC' series. During the series we have been digging into understanding our own 'carbon footprint' and what it means to us in real life.

The UK average carbon footprint per person per year now is c12 tonnes of C02 emissions. There's a challenging and more sustainable goal of four tonnes of CO2 emissions per person per year (= emissions from home energy, travel, food purchasing and general consumption, at roughly a tonne each).

"I offered to write a post on this, because when I did my carbon footprint, I realised that travel and transport form a significant portion of my annual carbon footprint, so it’s an area I want to improve on.

In this session, we shared what was important to us - peaceful, safe streets, short journeys to work, lower speed limits and safer cycling. 

We imagined what it would be like if people didn’t own cars anymore and there was a cycle super highway like the one Norman Foster has proposed. We didn’t all agree on these more extreme re-imaginings of how we travel, but we all agreed that shorter local journeys on peaceful streets would be a good thing.

While looking at the pros and cons of different types of transport, there was a lot of debate and focus on cycling. Most people in the group own cycles and had cycled to the meeting. It’s a quick and easy way to get around Tooting, but all agreed cycling in the centre of London was not such a pleasant experience.

Wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t have to be aggressive cycling in the city just to claim your piece of road? Would more people cycle if London was more like Amsterdam? What if the state gave you a free bike if you promised to use it more than three times a week, like in Sweden?

We played a game, imagining we were a family of four making travel choices based on lifestyle, and on government policy.

What soon became clear was that low carbon choices aren’t always made with the sole intention of doing good for the planet. More often, travel choices were made based on money or time saved – money and time that could then be spent as a family. Policy rarely influenced decisions in our game and sometimes, that was surprising.

In the future, we may have to reduce to 1 tonne of CO2 per year per person for travel. Here’s my challenge: can I get to 1 tonne?

I started my own travel diary and estimated my day trips & holidays.
Here’s how my annual carbon footprint stacks up now in 2014:

• Commuting and local travel around London: 6,396 miles per year = 0.9 tonnes of CO2
• Day /weekend trips out of London, and holiday travel: 1640 miles = 0.3 tonnes of CO2
• 2 return short-haul plane trips to Europe: 4 tonnes of CO2

In total, that puts my travel emissions at just over 5 tonnes per year. 
Is it time to cut the trips abroad or can I save enough by getting a job locally to afford me one flight a year?

One tonne is certainly going to be a challenge!
I’ll post a follow up on this, and from the other participants in the group"

Thanks for these honest comments, Jenny!
We'll report back from the two remaining Carbon Conversations meetings in this series.
If you would like to get into this fascinating and urgent topic, do join us in the future when we next offer 'CC' locally. All welcome: you do not need to be an expert, just interested in exploring your own choices, and in taking some action.

Tooting Community Garden Open Day 15th June - What We Enjoyed.

On Sunday 15th June the Tooting Community Garden took part in the Open Garden Squares Weekend.

Usually open on Sundays between 11 and 1 when anyone is welcome to come along, on the Open Day we were open all day long with a whole host of events including storytelling, human snail races, cycle for a song, broad bean harvesting and 'guess the seed'.

It was a fabulous day with visitors spending time in the garden.

Here some of those involved with the Tooting Community Garden share their thoughts on putting on the open day event. We asked them two questions:

How did it make you feel?

What did you take away from the event?

Here are a few of their comments, in the box below - click on the plus sign to zoom in, or see all the 'bubbles' by opening this link: Link to Garden Open Day Feedback
 

Feedback from participants was collected on the day and we will be sharing that soon.

FLCZ at Furzedown Fun Day

Nice picture of the Furzedown Low Carbon Zone stall at the Furzedown Festival on Saturday.

FLCZ Chair Giles Read (who took the photo, thanks Giles) said: "what a brilliant event The Furzedown Festival was.  The interest in the FLCZ stall exceeded all expectations, from people interested in investing to those wanting information on solar panels or just enjoying cycling for a song!" 

Competition Cakes

On that score it really is interesting to "cycle for a song" to see how much pedal power it requires, in my case 5 minutes cycling to put a "Man On The Moon" courtesy of REM.  However it's actually much harder to power the 100W light bulb.  Some of the children trying out the bike were fascinated at the connection between their effort and the generation of electricity. Thanks again to Eleanor for the loan of her cycle power machine which has been a great addition over the last two weekends.

Re-used & Reclaimed: Carbon Conversations Meeting 3

Our third meeting in the current Carbon Conversations series was all about exploring and reducing our carbon footprint in the things we purchase. That's a big topic which ranged from 'why do we buy stuff anyway?' to re-use and 'upcycling'.
Richard is a participant and has been researching an apect of consumption: re-using building materials, He recommends a couple of interesting projects below:

Hi all, I'm researching ways we can enable re-use of materials that come out of domestic scale renovation/extension work. This is something dear to my heart having been involved in making projects with Transition Town Tooting and at home using reclaimed timber - you guys will remember the water catchment project, (which was all reclaimed except for 5 lengths of timber that needed to be longer than the available) and the cold frame project that was 100% reclaimed materials.

Anyway, during my research I've found some really cool initiatives from around the world, and I thought I'd share them with you.

Have a look at the vimeo clip from the Portland, Oregon based organisation called "The Rebuilding Center" and tell me if you give it an English chuckle or join in with the tears at the end!

The Rebuilding Center also has done projects using bicycles to transport the materials they salvage form demolition jobs - hardcore! They also have lots of project ideas.

Yooz is up in Scotland and integrates re-training in its business model.

Ok, there's two. Hope you like 'em and it inspires how we can better re-use the copious amounts of useful material going into skips up and down the land.

Richard

And thanks a lot, Richard! For more about this meeting series, click on CARBON CONVERSATIONS at the top of this blog page. All welcome to the next series we run.
And maybe you have ideas for Made in Tooting re-use and reclamation?
Do get in touch.

'Brightside' article including Gatton School project in Tooting Community Garden

Wandsworth Council's May 2014 Brightside magazine has come though our doors, and the eagle-eyed will spot the nice short article with photo mentioning our Tooting Community Garden project with Gatton School. See it on page 8 of Brightside by clicking here.
Here's the photo:

Year Six children planning how to construct the cold frame

The article is about Project Dirt's Wandsworth cluster for local projects: to have a look at over 90 projects, and join in, click here!.

Community Garden Open Day was great!

Yesterday's Community Garden Open Day was a lot of fun, and we'll bring you some more updates and photos soon.

Panorama in mid afternoon

More than a hundred people came along: almost all of them for the first time, which is exactly the idea. There was a super diversity of visitors' interests and we had fun with the many garden activities - something for everyone, including simply chatting.

Winning the snail race

The crowd enjoyed story telling in the secret garden, human snail racing, games and competitions, live music, teddy bears picnic, human fruit machine, cycle powered disco, paper making, garden advice, seed swap, lemon balm tea and a number of delicious home-made cakes and treats.

See more pictures here

Please stay involved: All welcome to come to the Garden any Sunday from 11-1, and to continue the enjoyment by growing local produce or cooking for the Tooting Foodival on September 13th & 14th.
To stay informed, click on GARDEN or FOODIVAL above this blog post.

Made in Tooting

We have a new project promoting all things Made In Tooting. It's the brainchild of low impact living initiative founder Dave Darby who has organised an inaugural meeting on Wednesday June 18th - all welcome.  Over to Dave to explain the concept in more detail:

The idea is to promote local businesses making things in Tooting, and also to help people make (and grow) things themselves. We have a web address and a twitter account (@MadeInTooting) but they're not live yet. The idea is that local businesses making things in Tooting are promoted on the website, as are the small shops, restaurants and bars stocking the local produce.
That way, people interested in buying things made locally can find places near where they live to buy them.

There must be hundreds of small business making things in Tooting (as well as north, south, west and east Tooting, sometimes called Balham, Mitcham, Wimbledon and Streatham). Let's find them and promote them!  I've already made contact with By the Horns brewery (beer); Naked Loaf (bread); the Urban Wine Company (Chateau Tooting!); Nuff Naturals (skin-care products). They're all keen to get involved.  I've also talked to a few local shopkeepers about stocking 'Made in Tooting' products, and the idea was well-received. So there are plenty of things to do:

1. finding and talking to more local businesses
2. talking to local shops, bars and restaurants
3. designing and building the website
4. designing a logo
5. making a flier to give to local shops
6. maybe making a 'Made in Tooting' shelf sticker
7. researching what other similar groups are up to
8. helping people make and grow their own things locally

If any of this appeals to you, and/or if you'd like to come along on the 18th, contact Dave on dave@lowimpact.org

Carbon Conversations Meeting 2 - Hunting Energy Use In The Home

Report on Carbon Conversations by Eleanor. 
On 27th May we looked at our carbon footprints and then at home energy. I'll try to explain without jargon while recognising that learning new 'carbon literacy' skills is useful.

Carbon Footprint:
Our carbon footprint is a measure of the amount of emissions in tonnes of C02 equivalent (called C02e for short) that we use to live our lives. The average personal footprint in the UK is twelve tonnes of C02e.

So ... where would you 'hunt for carbon' if you want to reduce your own footprint?
Our individual carbon footprints are made up of 5 main areas:

As a group everyone was well below the national average, but we are all still keen to do better. The next conversations will give us the tools to take practical steps to reduce our carbon footprints overall.

C02 in our homes
Just to get everyone thinking we started with an exercise to determine what home comforts mattered to the group. The conclusion we came to was that once we have basic shelter, it’s all personal. Everyone has different priorities and will approach this opportunity from a different perspective.

Turning to home energy, there are two routes to a low carbon home
1. Use less energy (gas and electricity)
2. Switch to an energy provider who puts renewable energy into the national grid.

The Low Carbon Home game was a bit of fun to see if we could reduce the carbon footprint of a family house by 6 tonnes over 6 years. Some actions are free and easy to do like monitoring energy use and turning down the thermostat. Others require some time and a small investment like changing the light bulbs and some like fitting double glazing or a new boiler require building work to be carried out.

Open Day in the Garden 15th June

On June 15th, as part of the Open Garden Squares weekend, TTT presents the Tooting Community Garden Open Day & Father's Day Fete at the Community Garden, 5 North Drive, not far the Lido. Come and discover for yourself this hidden garden paradise. It's free, naturally, and there are events for all ages including story-telling, paper making and games.

Or maybe you would just like to come and experience this reclaimed semi-wild growing space, chill out and picnic or get some gardening advice from those involved in the projects we run with community volunteers and local schoolchildren.   

There will also be the usual garden session from 11 till 1 for anyone interested in getting involved. 

All welcome, whatever you fancy.  

Green sky thinking - here in Tooting

On Tuesday evening 3rd June the Furzedown Low Carbon Zone is having its monthly planning meeting  at the Furzedown Pub, in the back room from 1900 to 2030.
The group has carried out diverse local projects for the past three years with many partners. On Tuesday we'll share updates on current plans and make new ones: our priority now is to develop a community renewable energy project locally.
For more info, email us at furzedownlowcarbonzone@gmail.com
All welcome - and we'd love to talk to you at the Furzedown Festival Big Day Out on 21st June http://furzedown.net/

At Sprout Arts on Wednesday 4th June, from 1900 to 2100, there's the first of a fascinating series of events with local architect Ayca Cutts.
'Green Thinking: Designing to Survive' is the title of Wednesday evening's participative workshop. For more details on Ayca's whole series at Sprout, click here.
We are looking forward to this - and it's a great fit with our Tooting Carbon Conversations series (click on this link for more info on our curent and past meetings)

Six gardens to inspire us

TTT people have made six fascinating garden visits (well five visits to new gardens, and our garden seems fresh every day). We want to share our impressions of things that excited us in many settings, from diverse and creative points of view, all of which can inspire our growing in Tooting.

Yes we are only showing snapshots - on another day, and for another visitor, there'd be a different experience.

Two gardens are in New York, in Manhattan's Alphabet City - where guerilla gardening began in the early 1970s in a bid to develop community ties and reduce unsafe areas. It wasn't set up by politicians, but by individuals mobilising together.

 

Which is your favourite garden; what inspires you to grow?

Share a comment below this post...

 

First, the Tooting Community Garden. We have been sowing beans, corn, and more beans - one of our contributions for Growing for the 2014 Foodival. Come and see them at our Garden Open Day, from 1000-1700 on Sunday 15th June, when we're open as part of Open Garden Squares and the Furzedown Festival.

https://www.facebook.com/tootingcommunitygarden

http://www.tootingfoodival.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Bursting out on 21st May

Sowing on 5th May

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Second, El Jardin del Paraiso in New York City.  Home to the most fantastic tree house (or should I say tree nest) I've ever seen. It was great to see so many children enjoying the space and hear music being played (much like our garden every Sunday).

The tree nest was the result of a partnership with local artists, and

reminded me of the Furzedown Oak project that we're part of in Tooting. It really brought to life how art can inspire people's connection with the natural environment around them and help their enjoyment of that space. http://evpcnyc.org/eljardin/

Third, Chelsea Physic Garden.

A paradise since 1673 for lovers of plants and botanical history, right on the Thames near the Royal Hospital (and the Chelsea Flower Show right now). It is very welcoming, and in beautiful condition, with the wow factor of expert planting and interpretation.

http://chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk/

I love the 'Shelf Life' project tucked away in the teaching area: growing common shop and supermarket foods in their sales packaging: from aloe vera to guava to wheat.

Fourth, Rosendale Allotments in Dulwich. Founded in 1908, the allotment assocation has 480 plots (and a long waiting list). The site lies on a steep hill, and every kind of crop is grown around the gardeners' benches and sheds - some for relaxing to enjoy the view towards Canary Wharf and The Shard. Thanks to the Site Officers Marco and Sophia!

The website is full of good growing guidance http://www.rosendale-allotments.org.uk/

 

Fifth, Sissinghurst Castle, in Kent.  There's the stunning National Trust garden (really, there were no weeds in the beds), and also a new kitchen garden to reduce the 'food miles' of the fresh food used in the two cafes. There are two full time kitchen gardeners - yes we are envious!http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sissinghurst-castle/

 

 

Sixth, it has to be the 6th Street and Avenue B Garden in New York City.

What struck me about this garden was the beauty and variety of the space - it was full to bursting with flowers and plants, grouped closely together. The joy was the exploration along tiny paths and under canopies - each revealing another space - a pond with fish, plentiful raised beds for herbs, wild flowers, ferns and vegetables, a stage for community events, shady secret seating areas for tranquility and reflection, and much more besides.

I discovered that this site is so loved by the community that it is now permanent, and welcomes 200 children through its doors every week as part of an education program that has gone from strength to strength. Truly inspirational.
http://www.6bgarden.org/history.htm

   

And:

As well as coming to garden with us in the Tooting Community Garden any Sunday, another great activity is the wonderful and creative Chelsea Fringe, running now until 8th June.  

http://www.chelseafringe.com/

 

 

Our 8th 'Carbon Conversations' series has begun

We began last evening...........our small group's exploration of understanding, choices and action on carbon reduction.
The participants aren't all starting from the same place on this journey. Some people in the group know a lot, some know less, and for all of us terms like a low-carbon future or carbon footprint may be simple words, but what do they mean?
Yes, we've promised to be careful of jargon.
However there is no getting away from the fact that it's useful to become more 'carbon literate', and engage with some new terminology, and some measurement ('where are all those tonnes of C02?') -without becoming carbon bores or confusing people.

Sketch of an earlier carbon conversation, by Alice Maggs

 

We asked ourselves the question: why do we bother? to act on sustainability and carbon-reduction in our lives.
Here are our responses, and no one needed to mention carbon at all in these personal and passionate comments:

• I feel more powerful and in control, rather than helpless
• It's a crime not to
• I wish to look after the world
• I hate waste and with my 'cheapskate tendencies' I love to recycle
• I care about the future, and my children's lives
• I believe doing positive things makes more positive things happen
• We are all at risk - people, countries, nature
• This is a global challenge, and I want to know what I can do

These comments show a range - maybe some are from the head and are about understanding and facts; maybe some are gut feelings from the heart; some are about taking action that's hands-on.
We have a creative mix in the group for this series!

This session was designed to frame the whole series, and the next meetings are focused on separate practical topics. The second meeting is Tuesday 27th May, and you can still join the rest of the series then.
For more info, click here for the flyer.

Painting of the Wandle Valley Girls - Tonight at Sprout

Come and see how easy it is to paint things in a totally artistic way!

We are creating a community of papier mache ladies for the Deen City Farm exhibition as part of the Chelsea Fringe Festival. Last month we created the structures and at this evening's Meet & Make its time to get the paints out!

Here are some finished ones to give us some inspiration..

We are working together on this project so come along even if you didn't make a head last month I am so sure you will have a great time reconnecting with your creative self!

Meet & Make 

6:60 - 8:30 ish

Sprout Community Arts Space

74 Moyser Road

Furzedown

SW16 6SQ.

brought to you by S.M.Ar.T network of  T.T.T.
call or email Jeni on 07944693015 and jeniannewalker@gmail.com.

Join us for Carbon Conversations 19 May to 7 July

All welcome to our eighth series of Tooting Carbon Conversations.
We have a group formed now to start on 19th May, with a couple of places left - please do join in for a free, instructive, practical and non-judgemental tour around reducing your own carbon footprint.

Click here for the flyer with all the details. And click on CARBON CONVERSATIONS at the top of this blog page to read past TTT posts.
To sign up or chat, email Charles at transitiontowntooting@gmail.com - but don't leave it too late!

And we have a fascinating new offer:
Our Transition Town Tooting colleague Jenny is developing the idea for Carbon Collaborations - an informal space, online and face to face in other meetings and workshops.
Carbon Collaborations can encourage people to share their own successes and challenges in understanding and managing their own journey with carbon reduction in home energy, travel, food, consumption, and more.
We'll share What does that look and feel like?
That could be expressed through wishlists, diaries, sharing equipment or time, confessions, pleas for help if stuck, photos of achievements... 
We'll get into this at the end of this next Carbon Conversations series.

AGM Report

The 2014 AGM and 6th birthday party took place last Tuesday.  There was a Tooting related quiz and the usual AGM formalities of re-electing co-chairs and presenting accounts before a brief update on projects past present and future. 

While we look forward to big events like the Foodival, three exciting new ideas include a drive to promote products "Made in Tooting", Carbon Collaborations to add to Conversations and an autumn Looking Out For Tooting event finding alternative viewpoints of our beloved urban nexus.  Keep a look out for more on these on this blog and social media.

Meanwhile today there's a well being walk (Sir Owain and the Lady of the Well) ending on the Common where fanSHEN will perform the Applecart, both as part of the Wandsworth Arts Festival Fringe. Get down there if you can!

AGM 2014

Tomorrow evening we are holding TTT's annual general meeting (AGM) and 6th birthday party and everyone is welcome to attend.  We will vote for or against our beloved dear leaders, there will be a Tooting related quiz with great prizes, a bit of official business and a chance to hear about TTT's variety of ongoing projects as well as find out how to get involved with some exciting new ones.  Hopefully there will be at least samosas and cake too! 

 

We look forward to catching up with you at Mushkil Aasaan in the Upper Tooting Road from 7pm, Tuesday 29th April.

the heART of the libraries: videos from a community group project in Tooting Library

the heART of the libraries interactive project has been devised by artist Sam Haynes who has been piloting it with Wandsworth Libraries since the new year, and some of the results are can be seen in Tooting Library until the end of April.

Two of us from TTT have been involved - this is a creative and original project which is working with diverse local groups and new technology. It's all about new skills and 'social' sustainability linked with the accessible and welcoming community setting of local libraries.

For example, members of the South London Tamil Welfare Group took part in a short workshop where they learned to use iPads, coached by Chris Nash from the Wandsworth City Learning Centre.

Even though many participants had never touched an iPad before...

...very soon they were onto the next step, which was to make a short video of subjects in the Library itself, recording their own commentary alongside the images..

Now these videos are on view in Tooting Library by a very novel method - each video is accessible via a unique barcode which can be read by a smartphone or iPad with the Microsoft Tag application.

You'll find this on the App Store, or download to an android phone from http://gettag.mobi

Here is one of the barcodes from the set by this group.

If you download the app to your phone, you will be able to scan this barcode image as it's shown here on TTT's blog, in order to see one of the project videos.




If you go to Tooting Library in the next week, with the app installed on your phone, you can find the other barcodes throughout the libary, and see all the other videos too.
Sam's website: http://www.samhaynesart.blogspot.co.uk/

This technique has encouraged me to think about including this appoach in our Community Garden, Tooting Foodival or Gatton School projects. Children or adults could quickly share their own reponses to their experiences, and participate in fascinating new ways to communicate a story made of images, music or commentary in any language....and we can even design our own barcodes (seasonal vegetables?) to suit each project!  - Charles

 

Three practical local projects: do join us!

Furzedown Low Carbon Zone
We had a productive monthly planning meeting last week - please see the minutes and actions here. 
In outline we're at the stage of visiting local partners to explore sites where there is space and interest to be involved by 'hosting' renewable energy generation equipment - whatever technology is appropriate - and sharing in the benefits.
A second stage will be to engage with local people who can become involved as co-owners of a community generation scheme. The Furzedown Festival in June is a target for that, certainly for informal sharing of the project.
Next planning meetings are on 8th May and 3rd June in Furzedown...please come along if you would like to be involved at this stage. Details will be on the TTT Events Calendar on this blog. Contact us on this email link for any further information.

Eighth series of our 'Carbon Conversations' meetings
We are going to offer a free series of local Carbon Conversations from the 19th May to early July this year. Running on Monday evenings (with one Tuesday for luck), this will be a set of six participative meetings which enable individuals to discuss, understand and take control of their carbon footprint, and work out ways to reduce energy consumption and expenses.

It's a very engaging and practical set of meetings.....and even fun.
We'll cover home energy, food, travel and transport, and general consumption of 'stuff'.
All the details are in the flyer for this next series: please click here.
Please contact Charles at transitiontowntooting@gmail.com with any questions.

'Cleaner Air 4 Communities' Project
This project brings citizen science and local action to the challenge of measuring and advocating for clean air. The toolkit - click here to link to a pdf copy - describes some of the steps that can be taken by a community group.
Graham Petersen recently took part in air quality measurement at Clapham Junction, with the Battersea Society (there's a case study on this experience in the toolkit). There is some funding available to support this project, and Graham is investigating that, with a view to improving air quality in Tooting. Please use the Furzedown Low Carbon Zone contact email for more info.

All welcome to join in with these three projects. Please get in touch!

Macro & Micro

Trying to read today's report from the IPCC about the effects of climate change on our planet, along with a mass of media commentary, feels like swimming through treacle, but the overall message is clear: the climate is changing like never before and with a high degree of certainty, the activities of our species are the major contributor. 

Though that might be evident to some (interested in for example and in no particular order peak oil, resource depletion, unsustainable fishing, pollutative extraction, toxic waste ... please go on ad nauseam to yourself), it's always good to get a reminder of the situation we face.  Human activity is screwing up the planet for humans and countless other species on a monumental scale.

So here in south London, TTT is one of the global network of Transition Towns trying to take actions at the micro level to turn this destructive juggernaut around.  Not easy and it can seem like a drop in the ocean, but then an ocean does actually come from many raindrops ...

One "raindrop" here was our successful growing & seed swap event aiming to reconnect people to the growing cycle and the possibility of greater sustainability, and we hope that Tooting will be full of fruit, vegetables and flowers as a result.  Congratulations to Caroline Partridge, the lucky winner of one month's worth of vegetables, generously donated by Abel and Cole.  Caroline happened across the event on her walk through Tooting on Saturday and has since planted plenty of the seeds out in pots in her garden.  We hope you enjoy your prize Caroline!

Meanwhile, Tooting Community Garden tips for growing potatoes, runner beans and sweetcorn can be found by clicking the picture of all those lovely Foodival growers from last autumn.  Will you be joining them?  Could you grow Tooting's biggest sunflower?