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Humans Are the Only Species Who Farm on Deathworlds and Win Agricultural Prizes | HFY Stories

🌾 HUMANS FARM ON DEATHWORLDS AND WIN GALACTIC PRIZES 🏆 When the Interstellar Farming Commission receives an agricultural application from Earth—a Class Twelve Hazard World where everything actively tries to kill you—they assume it's a bureaucratic error. But Coleman Hux isn't joking. He's been growing corn, wheat, and tomatoes on humanity's nightmare planet for decades, just like his family has done for six generations. The galaxy's agricultural elite are about to learn that while they've been perfecting crops in sterile, climate-controlled environments, humans have been wrestling food out of a planet that throws lightning, floods, droughts, and predators at them daily. And somehow, impossibly, Earth farmers have gotten REALLY good at it. When alien inspectors arrive on Earth, they're horrified by everything: rain falling from the sky, insects controlling pollination, crops growing in actual DIRT, and storms that would be classified as natural disasters on any civilized world. But the numbers don't lie—Coleman's yields are better, his crops are stronger, and his methods are more sustainable than anything the galaxy has ever seen. Now Coleman's heading to the Galactic Agricultural Excellence Competition with a crate of tomatoes, some corn, and absolutely no idea that he's about to shatter everything the agricultural community thinks they know about farming. Because when you learn to grow food on a planet that's actively hostile to life, everywhere else is easy mode. 🎭 CHARACTERS FEATURING IN THIS STORY: Coleman Hux is a sixth-generation Earth farmer who treats deadly thunderstorms like minor inconveniences and grows award-winning crops in conditions that would terrify most of the galaxy. He's practical, humble, and genuinely confused about why everyone thinks his farm is impressive—it's just dirt and rain, after all. Grevin Tholl is the unfortunate bureaucrat who first discovers that someone is actually trying to farm on a Class Twelve world. His comfortable desk job suddenly becomes much more complicated when he realizes the application isn't a mistake. Vexin Korr is the Senior Director who inherits this impossible situation and somehow has to figure out how to handle a farmer who casually operates in conditions that exceed safety margins by factors of sixty. Her stress levels increase with every message from Earth. Plix Torrn is the three-time Galactic Agricultural Champion whose carefully controlled fungi operation represents the pinnacle of civilized farming—until a human shows up with vegetables grown in dirt and rain. His journey from mockery to respect defines the galaxy's changing understanding of what agriculture can be. The alien inspection team—Dennik, Teelia, and Yennit—are the brave (or insane) volunteers who actually visit Earth to verify Coleman's claims. They arrive expecting death and instead find the most productive farm they've ever evaluated, which somehow makes it worse. Sarah Hux tends the family's vegetable garden with the same casual competence her husband brings to the larger farm. She offers fresh tomatoes to aliens in hazard suits and shares recipes with visitors who are too terrified to actually eat anything.