The party clears the forest
After an hour of trekking, you reach the forest's edge. The forest continues along to the east, and about a mile away you can see what must be the road back to Greensfen curving to the southeast. To the north, you see a black-spackled wasteland, fenced off in three large plots, each to the north of the last. The forest forms the westernmost border of the plots.
Each plot is identical in size and shape, and each has a large building near the side of the road. You realize these are, in fact, farms, although there is nothing growing here that you can see. The blight has covered all - only a few trellises and scarecrows remain to indicate that anything ever grew here.
At the end of the northernmost farm, the forest begins again.