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Small Tales

Jordi never knew his name meant farmer until he dropped by Mr. Henderson’s 4-H booth on club day in his high school gym. Until then he’d believed his parents named him after the blind guy on Star Trek TNG, which was a doubly stupid name choice since the character was a black guy too and the only time black people stayed in Skimple (pop. 748) was when the local sheriff Dave arrested them for driving through town.

Truth be told, Jordi stopped by the booth on a lark, hoping to slip behind the partition when Principal Carbunkle looked away, and from where he’d escape through the back door. He figured he could climb the practice field fence before someone shut off the alarm and slip into the alley behind the Piggly Wiggly with a fat joint snuggled inside the lining of his pocket, begging him to fire up.

But then he saw a picture of his big brother Granger with the orange tree that took first place at the 4-H fair the year before he sold his soul to Uncle Sam and shipped off to Afghanistan. And Kelby Harcourt, who graduated the year before with the bull that earned her a scholarship to West Texas State. The same Kelby Harcourt who forgot to close her blinds when she was in a hurry to change before meeting her boyfriend. And, most importantly, Northrop Paine, who won the science, 4-H and county fairs with an experimental hydroponic garden that grew soybeans to stop hunger in Africa.

Even Jordi would admit he lacked inspiration and motivation until that moment. Not to mention drive. But the sight of Northrop surrounded by soybean sprouts cultivated in water kindled a spark that set his imagination ablaze with possibilities. At the center of that imagination was — not just a hydroponic garden — but a hydroponic farm in the basement of the abandoned Farm-N-Feed warehouse. Sixteen thousand square feet lying fallow after the chain went bankrupt during the collapse of the subprime markets in 2008.

When Jordi unveiled his farm for his 4-H project, he’d only put 400 square feet to use, but every one of those square feet flourished with Blue Dream, Wedding Cake and OG Kush. He even provided free samples. With papers and matches.

Inexplicably, the club sponsors disqualified his project and Mr. Henderson failed him for the semester. But after his release from prison, he moved to Colorado and launched a budding empire.

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