A workman should know his own tools. [Pepper quotes with the air of an old aphorism, and a smile for someone not present.]

Fair enough. It's the wrong season to send you out to assist the farmers with the fields, although I imagine you're going to be their new best friend come the spring. A Major Alenko has set up a greenhouse of sorts, though, and some of the local farmers have some vegetables going down there. Talk to him and he can get you set up with a space, I'm sure.

[She looks considering then, lower lip caught between her teeth.]

If I was to get you a supply of some more exotic seeds, could you do anything with them? Granted, it takes about two years for a coffee bush to be ready for harvest, but I wouldn't mind starting something.