Corfurn Garden Suburb

The Corfurn Garden Suburb is an area of the city divided into a number of small market gardens and allotments dedicated to the cultivation of many types of edible produce and decorative flowers which are mainly sold at the Fruit Market within the Katrapetch Phryne Market, a short distance to the west.   The growers here tend to specialise in delicacies, high value herbs and spices and relatively expensive fruits and vegetables, which whilst they might not form the largest part of the daily diet of typical citizens, are still regularly purchased luxuries for many. This can be contrasted with the Gilder Fields district, further out to the east and south, which is a larger area given over to the volume growth of staple crops.

A ruling from the Raja in 3942 BPC, allowed for the clearance of a region of densely packed slum dwellings that were seen as an eyesore from the palace, with the residents forceably moved to camps south of the river, beyond the Old City Walls. Extensive redevelopment subsquently transformed the Corfurn area into properties that provided a gentrified extension of Court Circle life at the palace. Between these elegant dwellings, expansive market gardens were designed to augment the burgeoning Phryne Market by providing it with a fresh source of locally grown produce to be sold alongside the phryne coming in to the city from the hills much further east.   Traditionally, the gardens were associated with the fine houses as part of single estates but over time the connection between the houses and gardens faded, so that they are now independently owned and managed in the vast majority of cases, and the growing land is run on a more rigorous commercial basis.