Our needs have not changed over the centuries. The methods used to fulfill those needs have changed as has the amount of 'leisure time' left over to pursue our wants and desires but our needs have not changed. Speeding up the time it takes to fulfill our needs has left us with spare time. As a society, have we chosen to spend that time well? I'm thinking not. Might we be better served as individuals, families and a society if we spent some of our spare time relearning some of the skills that kept the pioneers busy and out of trouble? I'm thinking yes.
I've always been interested in the food of the pioneers. It had to be simple as it had to be gotten easily without daily trips to town. I grew up thinking that we ate essentially the diet of the pioneers - meat, potatoes and veggies. Well, if game was plentiful and the veggie garden was planted on time with seed saved from last year, if the ground was good, if the predators stayed away, if it rained enough, if hurricanes, tornadoes, forest and prairie fires, grasshoppers stayed away - then the pioneer ate what I ate growing up. Since so many starved to death, however, perhaps all did not go so well.
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