Our final harvest this year in mid October included two varieties of pear, four types of apple, plums, yellow courgettes, runner and green beans, tomatoes, onions, an abundance of curly kale, cavalo nero and chard, and lots of different herbs.

Our menu for our harvest supper comprised Wensleydale soup, onion soup, three cheese three leaf lasagne, vegan veggie pie, Lebanese green beans, cheese with plum chutney, apples and pears, blackberry and apple crumble with ice-cream – everything made with at least one ingredient from the LRSP garden.

Our eighth harvest supper was probably our biggest ever with thirteen people sitting round the table, including three new members who joined us two weeks ago, and two of the original members who helped set the garden up in 2011 and remember planting the apple trees. And just to remind ourselves of how it was back in 2011, we watched Madeleine’s first video ….