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These days, he has two jobs, one as a butcher’s assistant and the other delivering food grown by a farming collective, Spodosol Ridge Farm.

Spodosol was founded by Sandy’s younger sister, Madeleine Duplessis, and is in the next town over, East Tinderwick, home to a “locavore and natural-growing community” that predates the Arrest.

The farmers of Spodosol and the people of the Cordon coexist in a stable if not exactly friendly equilibrium, bound together by necessity and barter.