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URBAN FARMER:BERRIES, berries and yet more berries – at the moment, the OPW’s walled kitchen garden is just jam-packed with them. There are fat, inky blackcurrants, giant, juicy blackberries, sweet strawberries and ruby redcurrants the size of small gemstones. And then there are plump, purple-skinned gooseberries, blood-red raspberries and loganberries as well as white currants, with skins so tender and transparent that you can see the tiny seeds within. There are even Goji berry bushes, although these are so recently planted (late April) that the fruit won’t appear until next year.

“And we’ve also got tayberries, worcesterberries, loganberries, even jostaberries,” Meeda adds, holding out a juice-stained hand full of ripe, sweet fruit.