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RollinsCat:
In addition to the securing of an immediate food source and trying to become mushroom farmers, the Buckle crew starts the long process of testing a solution to the famine-starved land.  Fertilizer, worms, prayer, and a plot.  Oh, and labor - a lot of labor.  The soil can support healthy plants, if it is turned with good soil and lots of manure or compost.  It's time to test that and the Buckle crew fans out to find a way.

Charlie heads to Farmer Part's lands to see if the adventurer-friendly old man will allow the test to be done on his acres.  Kat makes contacts with stables and other places manure might be found as well as any other ideas she has for getting fertilizer.  A lady new to the Buckle, Lilah, agrees without hesitation to try and find healthy worms - she must have been a tomboy as a child, the bard thinks with a smile.  

It's a long shot but if the method works...he must find Jil again, and see if he can find Connor or Brisbane.  Aden was planning a meeting to that end soon, wasn't he?

cbnicholson:
Charlie looks up from the top of his shovel and cooly decided right then and there that Katelyn needed a new beauty product other than stale poo.  She looked a mess, head to toe in mud, worms, and semi fresh manure.  He grinned at the sight of her hauling more of the stinky stuff to the three acre plot Farmer Part had agreed to let them use.  It had only been a few days but between the two of them, they'd managed to weed, turn over, and begin the process of applying the manure Katelyn had shrewdly bargained from the stable master at the Castle.  His one regret was the nightly bath, Katelyn insisted they take in the ice cold river.  At least he didn't have to clean a tub after.

RollinsCat:
Specific things being done to start the plot and test large-scale farming:

-Charlie and Kat are in charge of getting land, and meet with some success in the often-adventurer-aided Farmer Part.  It is hoped that his intermittent scarecrow problem will in fact help keep predators and possibly dark elves away while the crops are prepared.

-Andrew uses some of the coin left in the Buckle fund plus that which was donated at the Haute event to try and obtain manure, limestone, and good soil with which to fertilize the mushrooms and the farmland to help Kat's efforts.  

-Andrew also tries to find some locals out of work who are willing to help tend the soil for a reasonable wage in an attempt to faster prepare the land.  Rather than fixing on strong young male backs which are hard to find as most are tending garden plots for sustenance, he looks for women who need work and offers to hire nannies for the children during the hours they tend the farm.  He also lends his own back to the work of tilling, turning, seeding and weeding as often as he can.

-While they wait for Lilah to return from obtaining worms, Andrew hires a younger lad or lass to scour Mariner's for a Prunillian shrine that they might get the experts involved in what crops to grow, and how to grow them, along with Farmer Part's knowledge of his own lands.

cbnicholson:
Charlie rocked back on his heels squatting by the edge of the field, surveying the work he and Kat had done.  Three acres, turned, weeded, then raked.  He absentmindedly picked dirt from his nails, glancing at Katelyn who was already making noises about soap and yet another bath.  Bollocks, he prefered himself a bit dirty, it made for natural camoflauge.  Farmer Part had been very helpful in giving pointers, but the old man had let the two do all the work. Now all that remained is getting the seed from Andrew.  Charlie hoped the Boss would come through soon, it looked like rain.

Serissa:
*Katelyn pulls Charlie toward the river, promising to scrub his back, and thinking that his neck and behind his ears could use a good scrub, too.  She has the happy glow of a job well-done.*

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