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Frogleg wrote :

> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 10:39:47 +0000, Lazarus Cooke
> > wrote:
>
>> In article >, Frogleg
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> The idea of lying in a hammock and plucking fruit from
>>> surrounding trees, supplemented by trapping a few fish or shellfish
>>> sure sounds good. Not many opportunities for same in, say, northern
>>> Europe.
>>
>> Why? Strawberries, mushrooms, apples, blackberries still grow wild
>> all over the place. Northern seas are far more fruitful for fish than
>> tropical ones, and the rivers run with salmon and trout.


Apples don't grow wild all over the place, they only grow wild where they
have been abandoned, any modern fruit must be grafted on a parent stalk to
grow, and thus any fruit planted is likely to give only crabapples or wild
pears etc...
However there are quite a few nourishing things out there indeed, as in
most any environment, but these can only nourish a sparse population, if
you don't have crop harvests to maximise the yield of restricted land per
capita you need quite a roaming territory.

> And come October? :-)

Chestnuts (poor man's bread)
Walnuts
Beechnuts
Medlar
Various gages 'Prunus' which must be harvested after first frost (otherwise
they are very sour)
Many tubers
Quinces (if you can stew them)
Crab apples (if you can sweeten them)
Fish and crayfish
Birds and small game

But then again you need quite a roaming space to get enough, medival
peasants were often reduced to grinding and eating acorns despite it's
bitterness, after having eaten everything around them.

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Chris CII, Rennes, France