There's are reasons why almost all hunter/gather cultures switched to
agriculture.

Yeah, it involves a lot more work. But it also gives you a food
supply that's far more reliable.

Droughts and the like will be bad for you either way. But barring
things like that you get to control your food supply instead of
having the food supply control you.

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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com