We brought a trolley of edibles including squash, amaranth, cauliflower and marigold on the train from Rotherhithe, and helped to plant a selection of these with grasses and other plants as part of a beautiful permaculture design illustrating innovative, sustainable practices suitable for dry climates and gardens coping with weather extremes at home or abroad. Later in the year, we selected some of the best edible and ornamental plants to compete on the show benches in the categories of ‘2 Heads of Lettuce’, ‘Autumnal Foliage’ and ‘Autumnal Seed Heads or Flowers’. From our entries we got two Third Places and One Commended which, for a first showing on a national stage, felt like a huge achievement – and the honour goes to the community growers at the Lambeth GP Food Co-op, and our staff at our Southwark Charities sites, whose hard work made these achievements possible. We were also given the honour of displaying a stall of our work more broadly at the Autumn Harvest Show, where we were interviewed by the Gardeners World podcast and were able to talk to hundreds of people about our work.