‘People want to reclaim something pure’: the rise of the urban honesty stall

The Local Yum, an urban roadside honesty stall in Adelaide, South Australia. Photograph: Sia Duff/The Guardian

When Hannah Reeve tore up the grass on her suburban block in Burnie, Tasmania to make more room for growing vegetables, she faced the problem of what to do with the surplus.

Her solution was to create the RavenOak pickup honesty stall out the front of her house, a set of salvaged wooden shelves laden with an ever-changing array of squash, zucchini, spring onions, eggs, beans, cucumber, rainbow chard, warrigal greens, spinach and broccoli.