In the near future mankind will colonize the solar system.  One of the first such worlds to be colonized will be Mars.  And the one thing every colony needs is food. Philip Grayson is an author who set out for Mars in an attempt to bring some authenticity to his new series.  There he chose to live a life which would give him plenty of time to work on his stories, the life of a Martian Farmer.  But living the authentic life of a farmer isn't as automated as the stories say it is.  He will need to handle the outside weather effecting his crops, equipment failures and the problems that come from having rude neighbors on a planet that wants to kill you.  When the largest city consists of twenty thousand people over twenty kilometers away, can he really handle the life of a Martian Farmer?