Re: Superstition or omen?

In urp, Halla wrote in response to Jymn:
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Those who didn't wouldn't survive very long otherwise
(assuming the collapse of conventional agriculture as well).

I'd assumed that, although I can also imagine a time when
growing methods become some sort of fiercely guarded lore -
not just how so-and-so manages to grow championship winning
leeks every year, either, stuff like the fact that seeds
grow, that sort of thing.

Monsanto?

There's already people who look
surprised at the idea of planting a potato from the cupboard
to make me think that it isn't such a huge leap to imagine
such a scenario. (I don't know what these people imagine seed
potatoes to look like, either. Confuses me a bit.)

A friend was quite srprised to discover he has two almond trees - and fruit
this year. Results of nuts being thrown around two or three Christmases
back.
It amazes me that people don't make the correlations, there again I don't
suppose frozen chips sprout.

Working from family anecdotes, wild food became significant
in diet during the Depression / General Strike, which
suggests that its significance was much less before that
time.

But that people knew what they could eat. I wonder if there
are enough people left with the relevent skills even now to
teach others.

At the moment, probably.
in a 100 years, there will either be a lot, or a real shortage, depending on
how economics go in the mean time (and where they plant 3 million houses)

During the 30s reliance declined, but was
rapidly revived during the Second World War and rationing.
The practise of gathering wild harvest dwindled to some
fruit picking, which now seems to be in decline.

There's plenty of people who seem to subscribe to the 'Can't
eat that, it grew in the *ground*!!!!' mentality, from what I
can see. So even wild fruit would be suspect and not to be
eaten. Oh well, more for me.

Can't eat that, its got to be washed, hasn't come out of a packet/tin etc.
The joy of fruit picking is what's over survives to be turned into pies wine
etc.

It does make me chuckle to think that people will spend a
fortune on fruit bushes, including brambles, then hack the
wild ones to bits if they dare invade the garden.

Are but, you can't get thornless wild ones.

Jymn


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