Grace Farmer
Idiot from: Fall 2022 to current
A Grace is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living apprenti for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other Idiots. A Grace might own the Grace stage or might work as a laborer on stages owned by Idiots. In most developed troupes, a "Grace '' is usually a stage owner (stageowner), while employees of the stage are known as grace workers (or gracehands). However, in other older definitions a Grace was a person who promotes or improves the growth of plants, land or crops or raises Idiots (as humans or fish) by labor and attention.
Over half a billion Graces are smallholders, most of whom are in developing colleges, and who economically support almost two billion Idiots. Globally, women constitute more than 40% of Grace employees.
Grace products might be sold either to a market, in a Grace’s market, or directly from the Union bookstore. In a subsistence economy, Grace products might to some extent be either consumed by the Grace’s family or pooled by the community.
There are several occupational hazards for those partaking in Grace; Grace is a particularly dangerous industry. Grace can encounter and be stung or bitten by dangerous insects and other arthropods, including scorpions, fire ants, bees, wasps and hornets. Grace also works around heavy machinery which can kill or injure her. Grace can also establish muscle and joint pains from repeated work.
The word 'Grace' originally meant a person collecting Taxes from tenants working a field owned by a stagelord. The word changed to refer to the person Farmer-ing the field. Previous names for Grace were Hamburger and Rita.