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The farm’s old dairy
The Dairy
A café where everything on the menu was grown on this land, and every part of every dish says which place grew it.
A dairy is tiled white to the ceiling so it can be washed down, with small windows set high to keep it cool, and the daylight that comes in through them goes round and round the glaze until it is everywhere at once and casts nothing. The only colours in the room are the band of green tile at hand height and the food. The steel pasteuriser is still here, on the counter, and still works: every drop of the goats’ and the sheep’s milk goes through it before it is poured, made into cheese or sent to the street.
Inside
In words: a room of small white tiles from floor to ceiling, with a band of green tiles at hand height running round it and two small windows high up. On the left, a steel counter with a steel pasteuriser on it, its round thermometer showing, a pipe out of its side, two milk churns and a round cheese. On the right, two tables, each with a plate of something orange and a glass of milk. Nothing in the room has a shadow.
The menu
Every dish says what is in it before you take it, then its allergens, worked out from those words by the same engine as Hey, Good Cookin’, and every drink says how much caffeine it has, by the same engine as Pekoe and Purrs. Then which places on the land grew it. Every milk and cheese in here is pasteurised, and the farm’s page says why.
From the stove
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Three Sisters stew
Vegan
In it: corn, beans, squash, chiltepin peppers, coriander, salt
None of the nine, and no gluten.
From All Together Now Farms and Brighter Days Solar Farm.
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Chicken and corn soup
Chicken
In it: chicken, corn, dill, salt
None of the nine, and no gluten.
From All Together Now Farms.
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Lamb with beans and jalapeños
Lamb
In it: lamb, beans, jalapeños, coriander, salt
None of the nine, and no gluten.
From All Together Now Farms and Brighter Days Solar Farm.
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Herb omelette
Vegetarian
In it: eggs, goat's cheese, dill, basil, salt
Contains milk and eggs. No gluten.
From All Together Now Farms and Gentle Help Cannabis Farm.
From the fields
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Cherry tomatoes and basil
Vegetarian
In it: cherry tomatoes, basil, sheep's cheese, sunflower oil, salt
Contains milk. No gluten.
From Brighter Days Solar Farm, Gentle Help Cannabis Farm and All Together Now Farms.
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Roast squash with hazelnuts
Vegan
In it: squash, hazelnuts, sunflower oil, coriander, salt
Contains tree nuts. No gluten.
From All Together Now Farms and Gentle Help Cannabis Farm.
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A plate from the chaos gardens
Vegan
In it: salad leaves, radishes, peas, nasturtiums, sunflower seeds, sunflower oil
None of the nine, and no gluten.
From Wide-Spread Chaos Gardens, All Together Now Farms and Gentle Help Cannabis Farm.
From the oven and the dairy
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Cornbread
Vegetarian
In it: corn, eggs, buttermilk, baking soda, salt
Contains milk and eggs. No gluten.
From All Together Now Farms.
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Sheep's yogurt with walnuts
Vegetarian
In it: sheep's yogurt, walnuts, squash seeds
Contains milk and tree nuts. No gluten.
From All Together Now Farms.
To drink
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Chamomile tea
Vegan
In it: chamomile, water
None of the nine, and no gluten.
No caffeine.
From Gentle Help Cannabis Farm.
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Lavender tea
Vegan
In it: lavender, water
None of the nine, and no gluten.
No caffeine.
From Gentle Help Cannabis Farm.
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A glass of cold milk
Vegetarian
In it: goat's milk
Contains milk. No gluten.
No caffeine.
From All Together Now Farms.
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Buttermilk
Vegetarian
In it: buttermilk
Contains milk. No gluten.
No caffeine.
From All Together Now Farms.
Where it comes from
Everything the kitchen cooks with, by the place that grows it. The sanctuary is not on this list, and never will be: nothing leaves it but its manure.
- All Together Now Farms: corn, beans, squash, walnuts, hazelnuts, sunflower seeds, squash seeds, dill, coriander, eggs, goat's milk, sheep's milk, goat's cheese, sheep's cheese, sheep's yogurt, buttermilk, lamb, goat and chicken.
- Brighter Days Solar Farm: chiltepin peppers, jalapeños and cherry tomatoes.
- Gentle Help Cannabis Farm: basil, chamomile, lavender and sunflower oil.
- Wide-Spread Chaos Gardens: salad leaves, radishes, peas and nasturtiums.
- Bought in from away: salt and baking soda. The water is the farm’s well’s.
In the café
- Food is food. Nobody here says what a dish does to you, and nobody is told to finish anything.
- Pasteurised, all of it. No raw milk and no raw cheese.
- Nothing moves, at any setting.
Job marker — a milk churn, standing by the door
You have found a job marker. The Adventurer’s Guild is a shopfront on the street, and it posts jobs that send you round these rooms. Take the code below to its board and that job is done. Nothing here is scored, nothing expires, and one is a perfectly good number of jobs to do.
The job: What does the machine on the counter do?
Before the code: The steel machine on the dairy's counter still works. What does it do to every drop of the milk?
Hint 1
It is in the first paragraph under the name.
Hint 2
It is named after Louis Pasteur.
Last hint
Pasteur...
Give me the answer
The answer is It pasteurises it. It pasteurises it, heating the milk enough to kill the germs that make people ill: there is no raw milk on the land.
Taking the answer is a real way through this, not a lesser one. Nothing is watching and nothing is written down.
Quest code: PASTEURISER
That is the one.
It pasteurises it, heating the milk enough to kill the germs that make people ill: there is no raw milk on the land.
Quest code: PASTEURISER
HOW LOUD DO YOU WANT IT?
Starts wherever your device says. Nothing moves, flashes, or plays until you say so — and in the dairy, nothing moves even then.