So.
Alternative timeline. TWD season 7 mid season. Just after Eugene starts to embrace his position in the saviors. Eugene did a walk through in the vegetable grow area. His eyes light up. He sees an opertunity.
Eugene: Excuse me who is running this part of the operation vis a ve growing food for our group.
Guard: That would be Skinny Joe, used to be a real farmer. He is in his office.
Eugene walks to Skinny Joes office. The man is asleep. He walks out to the garden floor and sees a mess. Lights to low on the beans, cabbages over watered. Bagged fertilizers open and already becoming cakes up from moisture The place was a mess.
Eugene: Skinny Joe wake up. You are on duty. Perhaps I should ask Negan
if your duties include naps while the food he has you growing rots in the dirt.
Skinny Joe. Dammit asshole give me a break. We had the generator for this area go out and I spent 15 hours getting it back up. Fuck off asshole.
Eugene: Joe you have a serious problem here. is it manpower? Do you not have enough staff to run this properly. Are you possible not proficient in repairing agricultural infrastructure for the task at hand?
Skinny Joe: Look man food production is in hand. Our outside crops are doing great because that's what a farmer does, we don't grow in the basement of an old factory with energy systems that are not reliable.
Eugene: Well then why do you persist in the endeavor to produce food where none can be produced.
Skinny Joe: Because we are all Negan and we all do what we are told. This was supposed to be a backup in case the crops failed. With them doing well and less that 6 weeks from harvest and I more concerned with storage issues. We still have no silo but outriders have found a 30 footer that they say can be moved onto the property. We have 4 spring houses made and we have enough freezers for the chickens and pigs to store about 3 tones of meat. We have to harvest the animals as we will not have enough feed for them over winter.
Eugene: Talk to me Joe, what can I help you with? If the systems you have in place preclude any harvest from this indoor mess you must cease and desist on your efforts as these are waste labor hours that can be put to better use.
Skinny Joe: I was told to do this Eugene. In case your new here Negan has a very specific method of dealing with people people who let down the group. I do not want to be standing in front of the furnace any time soon.
Eugene: Well then Skinny Joe I feel I must help you change Negans mind as you are doing a more than adequate job feeding this family and your loss would not benefit us at all.
Skinny Joe: What do you have in mind.
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8 week interlude.
Eugene: Joe are you ready for our presentation to the council?
Skinny Joe: I am Eugene. I am glad you have come up with another idea for the indoor area. I have not lost my head from when you explained the challenges to growing indoor to Negan. I could tell he was not buying it but when you went into all the technical crap I can't follow he understood and blamed the council on even trying.
Eugene:
Now we lay out how we are really going to help the family.
The 2 walk into the council room. Negan and crew have been arguing and the room is tense.
Negan: What I wanna know is how come our guards can not seem to keep our prisoners in our prison! Why do we have so many fights in our security teams. Look I do not care if you guys wanna beat the shit out of each other but I am passing a rule right damn now. Any fight that kills someone you better run far and fast because I will zombie your ass and use you as a guard in the outer fence. This ends now.
Council:
Yes sir Negan sir.
Negan: Ok new business.
Our farmer is here for an update but Eugene is gracing us with his presence. Eugene what are you here for?
Eugene: Negan and council I am here to verify the numbers on food and storage of said same products. We are very close to harvest and truly I say to the council even if something would cause us to
harvest right now we would still have enough for the winter until spring crops start up.
Negan : Outstanding. The nuts and bolts and numbers just submit we do not need to hear how many pounds...
Eugene: Tons Mr Negan. We have tons of food in the fields and tons of food on the hoof and foot..... Skinny Joe did wonders once he no longer has to deal with the inside situation.
Negan: Tons then. Outstanding job.
Eugene: Negan at this time I would like to tell you about another project that I started. First I admit I had no authorization for this and any repercussions should fall on me and not Skinny Joe. I have used a small amount of Family property to start this project but nothing that is even low in stock or needed for anything else at this time.
Negan: Well Eugene you intrigue me, What is the project?
Eugene: As words are cheap and pictures paint a much more vivid portrait of the final outcome of this project my I have the councils permission to show you. It is downstairs.
Negan. Well council members let's follow our big brain downstairs and see what we have?
The council members follow Eugene and Skinny Joe downstairs. In front of the smallest room in the basement they stop and Eugene opens a security panel in a cabinet. 6 buttons later the door unlocks and they walk in.
Negan: Holy shit.
Eugene pulls back the partition to show his project. A 10 by 10 plot of Female cannabis plants about 3 weeks in flower. Everybody is stunned. The silence is oppressive. Eugene realizes that everyone is waiting for Negan to comment.
Negan :Eugene I had no idea that you were such a pothead.
Eugene : Begging your pardon Mr Negan but considering the shape of this world we are in and the fact that Cannabis of this type and strains have not been seen in 6 years I would say that you are looking at THE POTHEAD for our world. I carried 3 tubes of the dankest of the Dank seeds through some horrific shit and with a little time and very little effort I have assured myself that my skills in growing the green have not withered on the vine. The patch on the right is the Gorilla glue #4 and not some hempy cross that tastes like shit. That strain is very stable. The second patch is a stable pheno I produced from a collection of Dutch Seeds from the 80's. The third monster plant with no puffy tops is a pure strain landrace that will be outstanding outdoors but the ceiling here will let her grow. That plant will be 11 feet tall and will use more water than the rest of the plants combined.
Negan: Eugene what is that little patch separated in the corner. It looks way different.
Eugene: That is a special grow that I am hoping makes it. I am using a method to clone this plant so I do not have to burn all my seeds. It will be my primary pheno for crosses.
Negan: Well what is that called then.
Eugene: It was a pack of 5 seeds I got from a guy on an online cannabis grower site back when we had such a thing. I never got a chance to run this pheno so it is a mystery. He called it Frostetta.
This was fun writing.
