South Colson's Harvest Festival was an eye-opener for members of the various Extraordinary Organizations!
Another purpose of this Harvest Festival was, in fact, to celebrate this victory.
Hobart had long promised that on this day, all expenses incurred by everyone involved in the war, including logistics personnel, would be covered by the Lord's Manor, so long as they were not deliberately wasteful.
Thus, aside from the Temperance Faction, most members of the other organizations stayed behind to take a look.
First, the variety of food here amazed them, and it all tasted quite good. Many of the things had been completely unfamiliar to them before.
Second, this was the first time they had seen agricultural products sold this way.
Visitors were actually allowed to pick their own produce in the fields, while the vegetable farmers merely weighed the harvest and collected payment at the field edges, teaching those unfamiliar with farm tools how to harvest vegetables.
Many visitors had not known cabbages were cut this way, potatoes dug up this way, tender corn leaves could be so green, peppers could be so colorful, or cucumbers could be so tender while still on the vine...
Many city dwellers who had brought their children had a wonderful time, and quite a few nobles found this sort of labor endlessly enjoyable.
Furthermore, most of the vegetables here were priced below market value. As they dug and picked, the vegetables in their hands gradually piled up until they could no longer carry them all.
At that point, South Colson's Lord's Manor offered two services. The first was vegetable buyback, while the second was vegetable storage and transport.
Vegetable buyback meant buying them back at wholesale prices.
This service was mainly for nobles, because they truly were just playing around. Once they found that the