A couple of decades ago, the novelist Barbara Kingsolver wrote a beautiful memoir called Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, an account of her and her family trying to live more self-sufficiently for a year. It’s less quippy than Reddit, but it makes similar points. Growing produce can be hard, time consuming and expensive. It requires planning, commitment and access to green spaces. I only have an allotment because I moved to a town where the waiting list was two years long, instead of the 20 years plus that I’ve seen in cities. One of the common threads on Mighty Harvest is that people are doing their best in whatever space they can find, growing in pots and containers, in small gardens, on the balconies of flats.

