Worldbuilding Weekend Prompt #177 - First Crop
Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community !
I'm aiming to post one of these each Sunday. They aren't a replacement for the excellent daily prompts from @worldbuilding they're just an extra opportunity if you have a writing itch you want to scratch. 😀
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The prompt this week is - First Crop
I recently came across a theory that the first crop planted by humans, right as the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution began (and possibly even planted when humans were still nomadic and then returned to later in the year), wasn't men planting early wheat to make bread. It was women rather than men, and it was early wheat planted in order to brew beer. Given the choice between getting a nice fuzzy kick from beer, or eating something which is nowhere near as tasty or easy to preserve as nuts, I know which I'd chose !
What was the first crop planted in the ancient history of your fantasy or scifi setting ? Who planted it ? Was it something that was eaten, or used to make cloth or cordage, or some other use ? How was it selected, grown and harvested ? What pests or other problems did it face, and how was watering accomplished ? Did it evolve into a crop grown today, or drop out of use when something better was found ? Or, in a scifi setting, what plants did colonists bring from the homeworld, and how did they fare in a totally new environment ?
Just to add a bit of spice to things, the two entries I most like (and are linked in comments to this post, so I can find them !) that are posted by midnight (GMT) next Saturday will each get a prize of one Hive SBI.
This link will take you to the FAQ where you can read more about Hive SBI - it's a project I thoroughly support because it gives both the donor and winner a steady trickle of passive income paid out in the form of upvotes on posts.
Guidelines
I stole these guidelines straight from @worldbuilding prompts (I hope that's okay !), I couldn't have written them any better myself....
- Prompt replies may be anything! Art, game assets, stories, worldbuilding details, fake wiki entries, maps... whatever you want to create!
- Please ensure you reply to this post with a link to your reply
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- Prompt replies can be any length.
- AI images to illustrate your posts are fine, as long as they are credited to whichever software you used to make them
- Posts using AI to create the text are not acceptable; these prompts (and community) are a way to expand and have fun with human imagination, and I firmly believe AI will never be able to replicate the human spark.
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