A local resident took to a community Facebook group early Saturday morning to request assistance from “a Farmer, well not actually,” in cleaning up a residential garden plot with a rotor tiller, citing an inability to buy vegetables at the grocery store as justification for the immediate transition to small-scale self-sufficient agriculture.

The post, which has drawn fifteen comments and five reactions at press time, has been praised by residents for its forthrightness, its capitalization of the word “Farmer,” and its early clarification — provided unprompted, in the final line — that the garden in question is “not acre or acres.”

“It’s an average garden,” the resident wrote, in a sentence that has since been described by neighbours as “the most reasonable thing posted in this group all week.”

The request appears to be part of a growing local movement in which residents, having visited the produce section of a grocery store and found it to contain produce they did not personally wish to purchase, have elected to skip several intermediate steps — including, but not limited to, going to a different grocery store, going to the farmers’ market two blocks away, or waiting until Thursday — and proceed directly to planting, canning, and freezing their own vegetables in preparation for what one commenter described as “whatever’s coming.”

What is coming was not specified.

Local agricultural experts have noted that the timeline between “I would like to grow vegetables” and “I am eating vegetables I grew” is, even under ideal conditions, longer than a single afternoon of rotor tilling, and that the period between now and the first frost may not be sufficient to fully insulate a household from the perceived unreliability of the grocery store.

At press time, three commenters had offered the use of a rotor tiller, one had recommended a different rotor tiller, one had asked if the resident was thinking of “the small kind or the big kind,” and one had used the post as a launching pad for an unrelated grievance about deer.

No actual Farmer had been located.