The next day he helped weed out the garden, insisting that he still owed them for all the meals and for two night’s sleep now. The pair talked some while they worked, and Fionn asked endless questions about farming. When he asked what the farm produced, Johnathan answered, “A bit of this and a bit of that. We grow for our own use as much as for selling, so there’s a patchwork of different things. Some wheat, some potatoes. Some hay, of course; I’ll do three harvests of hay this year, we had an early spring. That’s mostly for sale, though we do keep some for the horse. Our biggest crop is pumpkins. That’s what you’re looking at in the nearest field. They sell well, and keep well too, we’ll eat them half the winter. We also have a little orchard. Mostly apples. In good years we do cider.”
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