cabbage

She and a colleague planted tomatoes, watermelon, okra, red cabbage and onions.

As people in the audience spread their curtido, or pickled cabbage and carrots, on their pupusas, others await for their food with anticipation, while some choose to stick to drinks.

She only began three years ago, with a cabbage crop, and to help she uses an app called AI-Farmer, which recognises several South African languages, including Sesotho, isiZulu and Afrikaans, to help solve various problems.

In terms of the food they were given, there was "lots of meat", typically in sweet and sour sauce, and a dish involving finely-chopped cabbage and carrots in sauce.

The British Growers Association said supplies of brassicas – including broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage - were "tight" but better harvests in wetter parts of the UK should ensure vegetables still make it to the supermarkets.