Author's Notes:

A little story seed that never sprouted into an actual story. Was inspired by a Facebook trending news story from several months ago about the US gov't paying subsidies to people that identified as lesbian or gay to move to rural areas and start farms.

Basically, I'm trying to clean out my gdocs folder again.

Applejack discovered that she has a lot of new neighbors! All of them are mare couples, and while they seem nice enough, they don’t have a lick of sense when it comes to farming. Turns out, all of them decided to become farmers, despite knowing nothing about it, because the Princesses are paying top bits to fillyfoolin’ mares that also farm!

Applejack is glad to have new friends to talk to, but these ponies are in for a bad time when the winter comes and they have nothing to show for their efforts. So she takes it upon herself to help them out, by teaching a class on basic farming right from Sweet Apple Acres!

Now if only these dagnab city-mules would stop flirtin’ and start listenin’ to what she has to say…