Between late 2022 and 2023, we collaborated with Ediblescapes, an urban farming initiative in Nerang, Queensland, to explore storytelling as a vehicle for social innovation and community engagement. We asked: How might we use storytelling to collaboratively identify barriers to success, envision future opportunities, and disseminate meaningful narratives to positively impact Ediblescapes’ work? This article discusses and reflects on our application of two rapid co-creation methods, Narrative Futuring and Cinema del Pueblo, to facilitate community building and participatory media making. We utilize dialogic reflection as a key part of Dialogic Collaborative Action Research to examine our individual and collaborative processes, with the goal to improve our practices as community-engaged storytellers. Our reflections highlight the agile nature of community-engaged media making and identify challenges around navigating diverse stakeholder perspectives, managing hybrid workshop formats, and ensuring a seamless transition between the two co-creation methods we used. By sharing and reflecting on our process, we seek to contribute to the evolving discourse on community-engaged media making and its role in social innovation.