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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PrairieGhost" data-source="post: 287889" data-attributes="member: 704">I think the idea was we thought about important things in the past when there was no guarantee of the important things.  Today by the same standards we are well taken care of and so now think about the more frivolous things.  We have become so spoiled we think the frivolous things are the important things.  Some would skip a meal, but not checking facebook every hour.  Some like children think only of today as if tomorrow will never come.   I think they call them liberals. I also think RPNLPS was trying to say build up your treasure where moths and rust will not destroy it.  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />RPNLPS one of my hobbies is wild edible plants and wild medicines.  I have an old 1896 publication called the herbalist.  Even many of our modern medicines come from plants.  For example digitalis which is used for the heart originally was found in milkweed.  It's what makes monarch butterfies poisonous to birds.  The larvae pick up digitalis feeding on milkweed.  When they pupate then emerge they still have concentrations of digitalis.  If a bird eats them their heart rate increases rapidly and they either regurgitate or their heart explodes.  There are many more cures out there in our natural world, we simply have not found them yet.  lets hope those plants are not extinct before we find them.I think if a person was to feed their family without a seeds or garden and relying strictly on wild food it would take an entire section of land (native prairie) to feed a family of four.  If you fed heavily on starch you could feed a family of four on an acre of cattail, but healthy 640 acres approx.Your right KDM many subjects here.  Where to start?Edit: By the way RPNLPS did you ever do this:  go to the granary when you got home from school and put a pint of wheat in a quart jar, then fill with water shake and drain.  Do that three times, then fill with water and let set over night.  In the morning boil it like rice.  With milk and brown sugar it was delicious.</blockquote>

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