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IE Richmond Hill’s 2025 Year in Review

By Incredible Edible

20 October 2025

Every Incredible Edible group is unique. They each embody the Incredible Edible ethos in their own special way.

This year we are sharing a round up of reflections looking back over the year from a small selection of our groups. Today, we’re hearing from Incredible Edible Richmond Hill, which is part of the wider Incredible Edible Leeds network.

What is your favourite or most successful crop you have grown this year?

We had an absolutely amazing crop of spinach the size of our hands!

What has been your biggest success, or something you are proud of?

This year we set up a gardening group of enthusiastic local people who support and encourage each other both during and outside of the regular Incredible Edible gardening sessions. One of the members has even set up a ‘spin off’ weekly children’s group!

Are there any challenges or difficulties you overcame this year?

After we installed our raised bed, we had no rain at all for the first three months! The drought was a real challenge, but hard working volunteers carried bottles from their homes and wheeled camping aquarolls to the beds to keep everything alive. What was lovely, is that schoolchildren also emptied their water bottles into the beds as they passed after school to help our efforts and we also installed ollas (pictured right) and that really made a difference.

Can you share a valuable lesson you learned this year, big or small?

Screw down your bench planters because if someone wants to steal them they will find a way!

What are you most looking forward to in 2026?

Some of our gardeners, who were new to food growing this year, will be ready to take on more responsibility for planning and planting up the beds next year. Also, after growing a wide range of things this year, we now know more about what has been popular with the community so can focus on growing even more of those crops.