Quiris Meadow
Located in the eastern Utterends, Quiris Meadow is a vast stretch of the best farmlands in the region. As the Guivoc culture has grown, so have its agricultural requirements, yet the practicality of the Guivoc nomadic lifestyle is inarguable in a region where most structures quickly rot and crumble, and stable ground is so scarce for half the year. The Quiris Meadow has become Guivo’s compromise in order to maximize food production.
Nomadic communities arrive near the end of the rainy season at the “meadow,” which is farmed in the natural-looking elven style rather than human-style single-crop rows, such that it really does look like a giant meadow. Here, they take what they need from the reserve stores in great storehouses and silos at the edge of the swampish lands, leave any dried or preserved spare goods they acquired in their wanderings (nothing of high monetary value), and go to work planting the fields for the year. Each community has a traditional plot to care for, but all harvested goods are stored together, and distribution is managed in several ways, though the task primarily is organized by the Farmers Guild which assigns some members to stay with the meadow year-round.
Once planting is accomplished, a community chooses a need-proportional number of volunteers to remain behind and tend the fields through the growing season. The communities depart by their various dry-season routes for more old-fashioned gathering of wild plants, fishing and trapping, and other pursuits. Then, near the end of the dry season, groups make their way back to the meadow for harvest time and help bring in the crops, celebrate together, and participate in another exchange of spare goods.
A new (or the same) group of volunteers is chosen to stay behind and spends the rainy season preserving and guarding perishable goods, and if a community’s supplies run low during the rainy season, couriers can be sent back to the meadow for more. The Utterends are extremely fertile throughout the region, so in most years there is a fair amount of excess, and the Farmers Guild keeps the whole thing organized to generate as little waste as possible. The Guild of Protectors focuses a great deal of its efforts on defending the Quiris Meadow.
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Quiris Meadow
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