Top of the crops competition
In autumn 2025, we ran our Top of the Crops competition for all those growers picking their peas and digging up daikon, to measure the impact of growers hard work.
Autumn produce from Vine Road Community Growing Project. Credit: Vine Road Community Growing Project
The campaign encouraged urban growers to log their harvests using the Harvest-ometer, our free tool that shows the value of homegrown produce in terms of money saved, meals provided, and CO₂ emissions avoided. We are proud to have had some fine establishments involved, including Surrey Docks Farm, Castlehaven Community Gardens and Octopus Community Plant Nursery.
Across the season, 75,467kg of produce was recorded by 53 growing sites with an average of 142kg grown per garden, with heavy hitters like Growing Communities Dagenham Farm producing 1,400kg of fruit and veg.
The Harvestometer has been a staple of the Capital Growth members portal, much loved by members, particularly during Urban Harvest. It has been a wonderful way to record the incredible impact of the network and since its launch in 2013, users have recorded the following.
- Grown 87222 kg of produce
- Saved £619,178 that would’ve been spent at supermarkets
- Which equates to 1,090,287 meals
- Which has saved 122507 KgCO2e
With Courgettes, Tomatoes, Apples and cucumbers consistently topping the charts.
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