what a garden to be made ( OPEN )

[ethnobotany]

WHO: Beverly Crusher
WHERE: Hospital, outside House #15
WHEN: Second week of May
OPEN TO: Anyone, with one closed for Wanda
WARNINGS: Nothing for now, will update if necessary
STATUS: OPEN

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HOUSE #15

It was a strange box she'd found that morning. What was even more strange was what she had found inside the box. A bunch of seeds of all sizes and shapes stared up at her, glinting in the little bit of light filtering through. What startled her more than those were the gardening tools resting above the seeds. It was like someone knew she liked gardening, knew she would want to help out and wanted a garden of her own. Was this something those Observers she had heard so much about liked to do?

Pulling out the tools, she set them aside and began to sort through the seeds. There were so many, she barely even knew where to start. Two of most things, except one willow and four aloe. The willow made sense, though she hoped it was the seed for a smaller willow tree. The aloe plant also made sense. The more aloe they had, the better off everyone would be. Some of these would have to wait for a greenhouse or something of the sort. Otherwise, the climate here would kill them. But some she could go ahead and plant.

So for the rest of the week, she could be found outside when she wasn't on a shift at the hospital. With tools in hand, she's either working on getting some of the seeds into the ground or trying to remember how Annie and Finnick were doing their fence so she can make her own. The last thing she wants is to have her new garden get eaten or run over when it finally starts to grow. She makes a point of looking for anyone who might want to help on either one of these endeavors.


HOSPITAL

Her colleagues at the hospital are all very important here. Beverly doesn't know what each of them knows about herbal remedies, but she sees no reason not to offer what she does know to them. The more of a supply of those remedies they have and the more people who know what they are and how to use them, the better. So at some point during the day, she finds each of them, walking up to ask a few simple questions.

"I've just received a bunch of seeds for herbs and plants we can use for medicine and poultices when they finally grow. How much do you know about medicinal herbs?"


WANDA

Wanda is one of the people Beverly wants most to work on her garden with. Unfortunately, not knowing Wanda's schedule means she isn't familiar with the proper times and places to try to catch her. So Beverly sorts out a handful of the ones she wants to plant now, setting them aside so she can plant them with Wanda at a later date. It isn't until the end of the week that she finally happens to make it into the Inn at the right time to find Wanda. Making her way over, again being careful not to sneak up on her, she offers a small but very warm smile.

"I remember you being interested in gardening," she comments easily. "I've just discovered a whole bunch of seeds that I'd like to plant. If you're interested, maybe you could help me."

Comments

Hospital

[asklepian]

Julian has been meticulously going over every inch of the hospital to see if there's anything they've missed - tools or medicines that might have been left behind - between helping people and speaking to others wandering in.

It's been months, Nerys said, so he's not necessarily expecting to find anything. But it doesn't hurt to look, even if he's taken a break for the moment and is sitting with a cup of water somewhere out of the way when Doctor Crusher approaches him.

"Mostly what we were taught in survival courses, honestly. I've seen some plants from Bajor and various planets in the Gamma Quadrant to test their medicinal properties, but obviously we wouldn't have any of those around here."

[pretendtoneedme]

Beverly might have seen Clint coming and going from just a little further up the road than her own house sometimes. He tends not to spend a lot of time in House 20 during the day, definitely being the type of person that keeps busy without any prompting from anyone else, but of course he always comes back to the place he's currently living in at the end of the day, usually with a stack of wood strapped across his back or meat for the pot. Just through one thing or another they've never managed to run across each other before now, but this time as he goes home, with wood for the furnace, it's the right timing to spot the blonde woman about his age standing outside one of the houses down the lane from his and looking lost.

The reason for the lost look is fairly obvious; there's a stack of wood scraps nearby a section of the ground that looks like it's been turned over for planting, if his memory of what it looked like when Laura was starting their own little vegetable plot serves him. It's been a few years, but he's pretty sure it does. And if she's planting, she's probably wanting to protect those plants from the wildlife, which needs a fence, hence the wood - but if she's looking lost, she probably doesn't know what to do with that stuff.

Might as well offer. "Need some help?"

House 15!

[fishermansweater]

Finnick likes to vary his route when he's returning to the house he shares with Annie and the birds. Part of it is habit, obscuring where he's going though where they live and the fact that somebody is now living in their house are hardly secrets anymore. But there's another reason, too, and that is that it allows him to observe the village. He looks for changes in the houses, things that might suggest when someone has taken up a new residence somewhere. He listens for information.

And, today, he sees Beverly out the front of one of the houses, looking at the yard, where there are large patches of freshly dug earth. Usually he doesn't stop to talk when he's out scouting, but that's mostly because there still aren't many people here he feels the need to speak with whenever he sees them. (He's under no illusions that he's popular here, and he doesn't care. He's had enough of popularity.)

Beverly, though, has been kind, and she seems puzzled at something. Beside that, he's curious what she's been planting.

"You've been busy."

Wanda in the house! Stll moody but less so

[scepterschild]

Wanda has had a hard time in the village over the last month or so. Only Clint knew the full extent of her heartache and she preferred to keep it that way. Even so, it wasn't hard to tell that she was on edge. Her shoulders were knotted and tense and her head turned with any sudden sound as if she had to know what was there.

When she spotted Beverly she thought about smiling but the gesture didn't reach her lips.

"Yes." Her brows knitted together. "What kind of Seeds?" She was definitely interesting, in fact, a distraction would be perfect. Wanda was sorting through her troubles but there was so little she could do about them. Focusing on something she could control would be a small relief.

Hospital

[zomboligist]

Ravi's still not sure how 'mysterious food illness' equaled 'cured by a magical touch', but then, people have had fire powers, a Sasquatch randomly ate its way through their animals, and sometimes, they get appearing food. So he'll take it in stride, which is about all he can do while going about his normal life.

He's doing some light cleaning at the hospital, mainly the rat cages that he'd assembled when Beverly announces that she has medicinal herbs. "I know that I have enough for at least two more good parties," he quips, which isn't a lie. The pot he'd received is good enough to get him through a few more gatherings, but he suspects he's going to keep it to himself.

After all, his stress levels are ridiculously high these days. "Sorry, I come from a time when I just get actual drugs to help," he admits, "my knowledge of medicinal herbs is roughly around the same place as my awareness of how to cook with tofu."

hospital

[notsocommon]

"Some, but not nearly enough." Helen had always relied heavily upon the cutting edge technology du jour and when she had been coming up and attending medical school, she'd discarded the old herb knowledge in favor of vaccines and surgeries. She wished she'd paid a bit more attention, though, because it was rapidly becoming relevant in this place.

"I've been using willow bark as an anti-inflammatory and aloe for burns but if you've got some other suggestions, I am quite happy to expand my knowledge base."