The Qadan economy was based on fishing, hunting, and, as mentioned, the extensive use of wild grain.

And as the determined woman had foreseen, here her wild grain prospered.

Long before that, people in the region had gathered and eaten wild grain.

The first cultivation of wild grains, that is, turned hunter-gatherers into farmers, beginning some 12,000 to 10,000 years ago.

Apparently, this grass was a wild grain, which the Aluwnans knew how to cultivate and harvest.

Often we left countries teeming with game and wild grain to push into wastelands.

With the lush jungle close by and the fields of wild grain not more than a day's walk away, they should never lack.

Women are responsible for gathering wild grains on the tarsos in August.

Harvesting wild grains was a time- process best done with a group of people.

And this year it will harvest 100,000 pounds of the toasty, wild grain from 400 acres.