A 29-year-old horticulturalist, Mira Bunting, is looking for some under-utilized land she and the activist Birnam Wood collective can quietly develop. The Birnam Wood volunteers cultivate whatever vacant land they can find, give half the yield of any crop to the landowner in exchange for the use of water and electricity, and anything that is left after they had fed themselves is sold to provide seeds, etc., or donated to the needy.
Permission is not always obtained, and Mira can lie convincingly if they are discovered trespassing. She is also adept at adopting online aliases, and is currently presenting herself as a retired 68-year-old woman with a nest-egg she wants to invest in some rural real-estate. The farm at Thorndike had been offered but withdrawn from sale. Mira studies it on an online map, and it looks as if it might suit their purposes. The area has just been partly isolated by a landslide, and the paddocks look empty and currently unused.
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