Megnanth

Type: Agricultural
Site: Capital city of Dungarstel
Size: 3mi²
Population or Inhabitants: 150,000
Condition: Well Maintained, but dirty by nature
Terrain: Flat, artificially terriformed to be so
Links: Dungarstel

Description
Megnanth is the capital city’s grub plantation, overseen by one Uuley Vessbond. The complex stretches nearly 12 acres and is separated into four distinct rows. The entire expanse has had its soil manually upturned and separated into large conical piles in order to increase the surface area upon which grub eggs can be planted. Thus leaving only the four rows of easily traversable terrain. I’ve been to the site a few times myself. I recall it smelling of a rotten mixture of mud and feces. The ground is perpetually moist, halfway between regular soil and mud, causing your boots to slick slightly and all the workers' hands to be stained with grays and browns.
The workers themselves perform only a few tasks on bi-weekly cycles. Some must plant the eggs, taking fistfulls of them and shoveling them into the mounds. Others collect, using comb-like tools to drag the hatchlings out of the loose dirt before they have time to sprout wings. Others still pull heavy wagons topped with barrels along the open rows, with the combing workers depositing their cache whenever they pass. These wagons are then dragged away from the plantation, likely to the tanning racks near the edge of the city.
Additionally, there is the breeding nexus at the far southern end of the complex. A stone-encased structure filled with sieves of netting, leaving only a few select flat surfaces where insects could lay eggs. Matured insects are captured and brought here for the production of more eggs. I do not envy the work of the egg collectors, I’ve seen not one of them whose face wasn’t textured like pebbles.
History
Similar plantations in other settlements often have more colorful upbringings than Megnanth. Megnanth was made with purpose and planned in advance along with most of the infrastructure of the capital city, which had the advantage of being established for the purpose of being successful, not just scraping by. For all of the capital’s rather short lifespan this plantation has provided the majority of foodstuffs to its populace. As such, a great proportion of the peasant wealth within the capital work here to satisfy their required contributions to the community. It is not glamorous, but it is easy. People of this trade were once mocked in the earlier days by folk of other professions, but nobody laughs now. They just eat their maggots.