The Seed Keeper: Floating Farms

"Where the land dies, life must learn to float." With Oakhaven secured, master gardener Agnes Hemlock and seasoned scout Jonas embark on a new mission: to take Elara Vane's philosophy of precision and balance to the wider world. Their first stop is Veridia, a once-fertile southern region now crippled by industrial water diversion. The massive Great Southern Fen is all that remains—a huge, stagnant body of water too toxic and saline for traditional farming. The community, led by the desperate Lina, faces starvation unless Agnes can invent a radically new method of cultivation. Armed with Sprout, a specialized copper automaton built for hydro-diagnostics, Agnes designs the Clockwork Agitator—a brilliant, self-sustaining mechanism that forces the stagnant water to cleanse itself, allowing the first floating farms to bloom. But their success draws the wrath of Governor Torvin, a corrupt regional authority who sees the dying Fen as his own private dumping ground for Guild industrial waste. Torvin deploys legal decree, sabotage, and armed force to seize Agnes's mechanical miracles. Agnes and Jonas must race against time to expose Torvin's environmental crimes using Sprout's irrefutable data, proving that even in the face of political greed, the Oakhaven way of calculated disruption and persistent growth can save a home.