Foodival 2020 Produce Collection 5th Sept

Due to the restrictions placed on large gatherings we are changing the way we celebrate Foodival this year. There will not a be a public event in the street but what we are doing is celebrating our growers at a Foodival Feast next weekend. We still intend to make that sustainable low food mile feast with locally grown produce so if you are growing anything and would like to share some of your surplus produce with us we are collecting vegetables from 11-1pm tomorrow at Tooting Works, formally know as Trident Business Centre, 89, Bickersteth Road, SW17 9SH.

Here is Foodival organiser Mal harvesting her first home grown courgette to take along tomorrow. Foodival chef Volker and his team will use this and anything else donated to rustle up the vegetarian feast next Saturday.

Tooting Foodival 2020

The Foodival Team are delighted to announce that we will be doing something to celebrate local growing and cooking this year on September 12th. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions, our plans to hold the much-loved regular street festival with music, stalls, art, cook's competition and general feasting have had to be shelved, but we do instead plan to hold a Grower's Feast to say thank you to all those that have made Foodivals happen over the last 12 years!

Chefs serving local food at Foodival 2019

This safe and appropriately socially distanced event will take place at Tooting Works (formerly Trident Business Centre) in Bickersteth Rd off Mitcham Rd and invites will be going out shortly. The Feast will as usual in true Foodival style need donations of locally grown fruit and vegetables which will be cooked up by Volker and his team of local chefs.

We currently intend to collect home grown produce donations on Saturday 5th September to give the crew enough time to prepare safely for the event the following weekend. So if you would like to donate something from your allotment, garden, window-box or pots please do get in contact. It will be much appreciated!

We are sorry that we cannot hold the regular festival, attended last year by over 1,000 people, but we do wish to keep the flame burning for local sustainable food in Tooting and hope that our regular supporters will be able to join us to celebrate on September 12th. More details here soon and on Instagram