September 16, 2026
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A shared garden, a changing season, and a new sense of belonging

Eleven households, one strip of land behind a terrace, and a rota that has survived four years without anyone enforcing it.

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The land was derelict and technically belonged to nobody who could be found. The households took it on in 2022 on the understanding that this might not last.

What they built is unremarkable and works: raised beds, a shed, a water butt, and a laminated rota nobody follows exactly.

The interesting part is the failure. A second plot two streets away, started the same year with more money and a constitution, folded within eighteen months.

The difference, as far as anyone here can tell, is that this one never held a meeting.

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