# Barleybank Turn Report — Early Summer, Year 1

### Domestic Subsistence and the Hunger Gap
Early summer brought longer days, warming weather, and the expected seasonal lean gap before harvest. In Barleybank, Ada enforced strict grain rationing from the remaining communal bins, balancing daily distributions to preserve seed reserves. To supplement the tight grain rations, daily foraging details gathered wild greens and caught freshwater fish and river eels to stretch the communal pottage. While the diet was lean and monotony pressed upon the households, the community managed the stretch without breaking into essential reserves.

### Field Maintenance and Workshop Preparations
Across the fields, Cora oversaw methodical weeding as the barley stands continued their rapid growth and tillering, keeping the swelling crop clear of competing growth across both the lower beds and upper slopes. 

Summer convective heat brought periodic thunderstorms, but Bran’s drainage patrols kept the lateral channels clear of debris and runoff, preventing standing water from pooling in the seed beds or cutting into the grassed embankments. 

In the village yard, Dain completed work re-hafting harvest blades, scythes, and sickles with seasoned wood. Dain and the storehouse workers also swept and prepared the communal loft, ensuring the dry bay and dunnage platforms are clean and ready to receive both incoming jars and the ripening barley.

### Delivery of Restitution Jars at Measure House
Word arrived from Measure House regarding Hearthmere’s restitution obligations. Pia of Hearthmere formally delivered thirty standardized ceramic storage jars fitted with lids to the weighing grounds. Convenor Belen, Junior Keeper Sella, and Keeper Oren inspected the capacity stamps and recorded the tallies in the duplicate registers. With this delivery witnessed and entered, Hearthmere's winter relief grain debt was certified as extinguished, formally confirming Barleybank's priority credit for storage jars ahead of the harvest.

### Regional River and Road Transport
Reports from along the routes indicate that the post-assembly logistics agreements are functioning effectively:
- **River Freight:** Hearthmere and Reedhaven established joint river freight operations. Reedhaven's fitted wicker sleeves and padded reed barges transported ceramic jars along the river with negligible breakage.
- **Upland Waystation:** Northeast along the road, Stonecross opened its renovated roadside shelter as a staffed waystation. The post provides travelers and haulers with clean water, firewood, lodging, and staging storage under voluntary barter dues, alongside displays of quarried whetstones and querns.

### Unresolved Pressures
- **Lean Weeks Ahead:** Although wild greens and fish continue to supplement the pot, the community must endure several more weeks of strict rationing until the barley matures sufficiently for harvest.
- **Restitution Collection and Harvest Planning:** With thirty certified ceramic jars now accounted for at Measure House under Barleybank's priority credit, arrangements must be made for inspecting, claiming, and hauling these vessels back to the loft before harvest operations begin.