honestapples | 1st Rodeo [Voice]

[It's been raining for days and Applejack is getting bored. She found the farm not too long after she arrived, and the rain wasn't exactly stopping her from tending to everything, but the weather's turn for the worse today is definitely an impediment. And so, she's cooped up inside, running out of things to do. But hey, that's what this journal is here for, right?]

How come nopony told me 'bout this farm y'all got here? This is great! It just needs some more apple trees and it'll be just like home. Or... well, as close as Ah can get it. But that reminds me...

Have any of y'all ever heard'a zap apples? They're magic, but they're downright tasty an' real particular 'bout how they're grown an' harvested. Mah Granny Smith's the one who normally makes all the jam an' such, but if Ah can grow some zap apples here, Ah'd sure be happy ta share whatever Ah can make. Might not be quite as good, but Ah think Ah've picked up a thing'er two. Anypony got any ideas?

[It's something to think about, at least! Something that isn't baking more apple fritters, in any case.]

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[A club for non-humans. Why doesn't that surprise her at all?]

Nah, Ah'm just an earth pony. Can't fly like the pegasi, but we're real good with plants an' animals. My family runs a farm.

What's a farm?

Ya never... [Wait, what. Mind blown.]

It's where ya grow food. Ya know, crops? Orchards?

...No?

How do y'all grow your food, then?

...We don't. We hunt it.

Or I go with my other friends and we eat bugs.

[Oh hello natural predator. She can understand that some things hunt their food, but having no creatures that farm at all? That's just weird.

But she's stuck on something else entirely.]

...Bugs?

Slimy yet satisfying!

Ah'll take your word for it, sugarcube.

Sugarcube?

Uh... figure of speech. Sorta.

[Country colloquialisms. How to explain.]

Just "Simba" will work, Applejack.

So, what's this about growing stuff?

You got it.

[She's a little lost on how to even try explaining farming to a creature completely unfamiliar with it, but she'll try, durnit.]

It's what my family's always done. We plant crops an' trees ta grow enough food for the town ta eat. The plants can't take care of themselves, after all.

...So you actually have plants in your territory that you eat from, and you make sure they grow?

Huh. Do you live in a jungle?

Nope. We live next to a forest, but where we live, it's mainly meadows an' fields.

[Maybe that's why they have such different diets.]

Huh. So your kingdom is completely different... that's really interesting, you know!