#also i've said this before but roy both hates and fears the chickens

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After Roy and Ed move in together and Ed's alchemy work becomes more academic and less practical, Ed gets WEIRDLY into growing his own food.

He does the typical country boy stuff, making a garden and getting a small flock of backyard chickens and even building a compost bin, but he also grows mushrooms.

Just. A hugely elaborate mushroom growing setup in their cellar, next to all the shelves of pickled veggies and canned fruit. He gets so invested in these mushrooms. He studies their growth, he experiments with soil composition and lighting and moisture levels, he makes charts and graphs.

Roy is worried that his next thesis is going to be about mushrooms.