Before farming, how did vegetables exist?

Question

As you all know that vegetables are being planted and grown in farms with lots of care from the farmers. However, before human made farms, how did all those vegetables existed? are there wild vegetables?

Answer 1

There are many many wild edibles. There is wild lettuce, carrots, plantain (not the banana),cattails, dandelion, various berries, nuts, etc...

Not to mention that many barks and nuts can be used to produce a flour like substance for breads.

I gather lots of wild edibles and eat them regularly. I am very much into wilderness survival.

If you have a genuine interest in this subject I would suggest reading "Wild, Edible, and Medicinal Plants" by author Tom Brown Jr.

Answer 2

All plants we have today existed in some form in prehistoric times. Through evolution they have changed through the years just as we have changed from cave man.  Vegetables and other commonly farmed plants such as wheat, corn, soybeans, canola, etc have been changed even more through man's selection and later through plant breeding into the forms that are in today.  They have been changed into forms that are desirable to us for consumption. Some plants like corn have been changed so much they could not survive without cultivation.

Answer 3

all vegetables exist as wild  later manipulate some and cross some others.

Answer 4

Of course there is wild vegetables, and fruits, nuts, ect.

Answer 5

Yes, there were vegetables growing wild. People just figured out how to grow them intentionally. Just like with wild pets, wild plants were domesticated.

Answer 6

Before cultivation, vegetables existed in the wild.  Then mankind came along and took all those poor defenseless veggies out of their natural habitats and forced them to grow in nice neat even rows. Oh sure, they get watered regularly and even fertilized, but does that make it humane to raise the poor little veggies only to harvest and eat them later?!?!  And is it done humanely?  No!!!!  it is done by cold machinery, not by a loving human hand!!!   I say a veggie revolution is in order.

Answer 7

all vegetables are descendants of wild veggies there are still many wild veggies in the world today. through selective planting mankind has arrived at the point where we have many more domesticated than wild veggies.

Answer 8

It was life Jim, but not as we know it!...:)

Answer 9

YEs all vegetables were wild, and a lot of them look a lot smaller than they do now. Strawberries grew about half the size of a cherry. Gatherers picked the fruit, are it and threw the seeds into a pile of "waste" this pile however also contained fecal matter (c**p, poo poo) and eventually they realized this was what was making it grow and boom, humans invented ancient farming.

Answer 10

All the vegetables we humans consume today have a wild parent.  Our ancestors were hunter/gathers, they would have collected these for food 500,000 years ago.  Today's vegetables look nothing like the parent.  They have been engineered.

The tomato comes from South America.  All the varieties we see today are thought to come from the wild cherry tomato.

Tomato Genetic System

http://www.plantpath.wisc.edu/Geminiviru...