Popular Tooting festival announces it will be returning this year

A popular Tooting festival has announced it will be taking place this year.

Foodival, taking place on Saturday 4th September 2021, is a community festival celebrating all things 'locally grown, cooked, re-created and re-imagined'.

The festival aims to shine a light on how residents can live sustainably in a time of global climate change.

This year will feature the usual exciting array of local growers and cooks - as well as celebrate the initiatives that embrace sustainable living.

The event has been running since 2008.

Foodival is a non-profit event, run by local volunteers and relies on the generosity of the local community to make it happen.

In a drive to highlight the adverse effect plastic has on our planet and marine life, the organisers of Foodival 2021 will again designate the area a plastic free zone.

The festival will take place Hereward Road right in the heart of Tooting, some events will also take place in the Mushkil Aasaan community centre at 222 Upper Tooting Rd.

It's free entry for all!

This year's events will feature:

• A Clothes Upcycling event - a group of young people and local tailors will collaborate to design and create new items from old unwanted clothes. They will present their creations on a catwalk show on the day of the festival.

• Restart – don't bin it, repair it - get your electrical items repaired.

Volunteers will be at the festival to fix everyday items like irons, hairdryers, kettles and toasters. During the past years the festival has saved tonnes of electrical and electronic objects from landfill.

You can register a slot with a fixer online.

• Tie-dye workshop – You can be taught how to make your own tie-dye item using vegetable scraps. Bring an old T-shirt or any cotton cloth and be taught how.

• Locally grown veg display – on show will be an amazing diversity of produce that is grown by local gardeners and allotment holders throughout the Borough of Wandsworth.

• Cooking your own – during lockdown many of us have had to cook more at home.

At the festival, some great local home cooks will create a mouth-watering array of small plates made from locally grown ingredients for you to try for just £1.

Stalls - small local producers and makers

Already lined up are:

• Abundance Southfields – cider and vinegar

• Norah's Kitchen

• Skål & Saluti, a tooting based grazing company with a Danish and • Italian twist.