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The unwatched garden

Beside the tracks, people help themselves, weigh and pay with nobody watching. A note on civic trust.

A lettuce garden beside a railway line with solar panels.

Beside the railway tracks: solar panels making ordinary electricity, and a vegetable garden where people help themselves, weigh and pay. No checks. No camera. No list.

Free energy on one strip of land; civic trust on the other. Both working with nobody policing them, which is exactly what it means for them to work.

A train goes by; the garden stays open.