Season Plan for 1230
Seasons:
Summer 1230
Gretel will focus this season on assessing the current state of the covenant kitchens, food supplies, storage capacity, staffing, food production (cultivation, hunting, trade), etc. She is effectively figuring out what the situation is and then taking steps to improve the kitchen circumstances for the covenant starting with low-hanging fruit changes and then planning for longer term projects. Gretel will lay in a kitchen garden, focusing on herbs and anything she things she can get to harvest before the weather turns. Gretel will also work to establish a pattern of seeking out the local faerie denizens who may or may not be near the kitchen gardens, kitchens, or areas of the covenant she frequents.
Autumn 1230
Gretel will focus most of her energy in the autumn to the harvest and laying up food in storage for the covenant. This effort will also include understanding the mercantile network of the covenant: how much self-sustaining food production is in-house, how much is needed in trade beyond the covenant, and the mechanisms for doing that trade given the covenant's secrecy. She will be often heard singing folk tunes as she works and telling and listening to stories during social gatherings or evening meals.
Winter 1230
Besides keeping the covenants people well fed and alive, Gretel will spend significant time training or mentoring any of the grog staff who may be assisting in the kitchens, farm grogs, and hunting grogs. She will be quietly seeking to understand the food needs and preferences of the magi and companions as well as establishing a solid gossip network. Her singing and story-telling will continue with some emphasis on gathering up the children for holiday stories, songs, and meals as appropriate (mostly pagan, though not ignorant of the Christian holidays should that be of interest).