Labourers should be on buses criss-crossing lanes and highways as they plant cantaloupe and tend crops of alfalfa, cotton, wheat, tomato and broccoli.
As with popular simulation games like the Sims series, in which players control households, or the Facebook fad FarmVille, where they tend crops, players in Dwarf Fortress are responsible for the cultivation and management of a virtual ecosystem — in this case, a colony of dwarves trying to build a thriving fortress in a randomly generated world.
Think of FarmVille, where players tend crops and animals over and over, yet has more than 70 million players.
In a nearby area farmers said they had to pay the Mai Mai Nyatura group 1,000 Congolese francs ($1 £0.622) or two to three kilos of beans per person for the right to access their fields to tend crops.
The company's nonprofit arm, The Kitchen Community, operates about 300 "learning gardens" in more than 50 towns and cities, where an estimated 150,000 schoolchildren tend crops and, ideally, forge deeper connections with their food.
With more accessible programming, farmers could program robots to intelligently tend crops based on local soil conditions; teachers could build software to adjust their teaching based on what happened the day before around the school; chefs could set up systems to buy fresh fish from the nearby market in real time as people place orders.
Mothers more often work within the home and tend crops and cattle.
Santiago and Agustin live in a shack right next to the mine entrance, along with their sisters and sometimes their mother, who frequently leaves to tend crops on a distant farm.
If the world did a better job of tending crop biodiversity in its fields, the feared Doomsday after which the vault is nicknamed would be even less likely to come.
Furthermore, no one writes with more rough, intuitive grace about tending crops and tending animals (Cain's and Abel's callings, respectively).
It infiltrated her body last year through a single gulp of unfiltered water she took on a scorching day while tending crops with her grandmother.
