But where will he live?Īnd Prudence also becomes acquainted with Sara. Now that his mother has a new boyfriend moving in with her, she tells Seth that he has to move out. He dropped out of high school after a mysterious and obviously humiliating incident involving his drama teacher. Seth blogs about celebrities and heavy metal music, but he never leaves his house. Prudence also encounters Seth, the twenty-one-year-old who lives across the road with his mother. From the state of disrepair in which Prudence finds the house, it appears Earl hasn't done much except watch television with Harold for quite some time.

On the edge of the property sits a cabin in which Harold's elderly, long-time farm hand, Earl, resides. The soil is dry and hard, and there is only one animal on the farm, a half-sheered sheep name Bertie. When she arrives at her new home, Prudence discovers that Harold hasn't been doing much farming. Her dream has just become a reality: Her Great Uncle Harold has died and left her his thirty-acre farm, Woefield. Her dream is move away from the city and live in the country, growing and selling organic crops. Prudence is a writer who has published one book, but it was neither a critical nor popular success.

It is, in fact, an unfortunate episode involving those worms that leads to the demise of her relationship with Leo. That includes recycling, growing and eating organic produce, not leaving a huge carbon footprint behind, minimizing her use of gas and other natural resources, and even composting. Prudence Burns is dedicated to living the most natural, ecologically responsible life she can, even though she resides in Brooklyn.

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