They fished for salmon, hunted for elk and deer, and gathered nuts and berries.
They planted corn (maize), beans, melons, and squash on patches of higher ground and gathered nuts, roots, and palmetto berries.
Pedestrian groups gathered nuts from piñon pine groves in the upland areas of Nevada and central Utah each autumn, storing large quantities for winter use; early spring was a difficult time, as such resources were often exhausted, plants immature, and prey animals lean and wary.
In our bumbling way, we had discovered the same imperfect methods used by the old-timers, like members of the Northern Nut Growers Association (www.nutgrowers.org) or my local extension agent, who told me about the milk truck loaded with 10,000 gallons of milk that drove up his lane, rolled over three bushels of painstakingly gathered nuts and obliterated them.
They gathered nuts, berries, and vegetables, and they hunted smaller animals such as deer, bison, and birds.
Rivers in eastern North America provided abundant fish and shellfish, while gathered nuts were the primary plant staple (Watson, 1989).
The next day, I slathered a pork roast with fresh thyme and garlic, picked up a few bottles of wine and invited everyone to gather nuts.
Industriousness is a cardinal virtue in Potter's characters – whether it's the lovable tailor of Gloucester, the domestic goddess Thomasina Tittlemouse, or the squirrels who diligently gather nuts on Owl Island and whose ingenuity the author clearly admires.
The Kalapuya moved from place to place in good weather to fish and hunt and to gather nuts, seeds, roots, and berries.
The Kalapuya moved from place to place in good weather to fish, to hunt small animals, birds, waterfowl, deer, and elk, and to gather nuts, seeds, roots, and berries.
Logically, she argues, all the squirrels should wear (or not wear) clothes because they all live and behave in a natural manner: Timmy and Goody inhabit a nest in a tree (not a comfortable little house somewhere), and all the squirrels gather nuts for the coming winter.
