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

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 2

ok, lets get through this. Things evolve together. For whenever there have been things evolving there have been others evolving right alongside them. So before there was the cucumber there was something else. And there was something else, NOT the homo sapien eating it. But "perfect" for us? Hardly. Biological systems are inefficient, they have gaps, as you would expect from things that have developed. We eat fruits vegetables and meats and a huge percentage comes back out again, we can't use a lot of what's there for us to eat and ALL biological matter is potentially energy. And that's not even to mention how our digestive systems can be thrown off by frequency of when we eat, how much and how food not in pristine condition can upset us. All these things happen because there has been change and adjustment from an evolving organism and those in it's environment to try to adapt to the situation it finds itself in. A creationist model would expect perfection. Back to the original point, the first bacteria harvested energy in two ways. The first found a rudimentary way of absorbing transient light and heat into energy. This was not the photosynthesis we have in plants to day but a much simpler system, photosynthesis took some time to become as efficient as it is, but bacteria don't need much to fulfill their needs and replicate. The second type of bacteria took it from their surroundings, stray molecules of protein, water and most effectively from other bacteria. That's the basis of the animal and plant division. While animals grew and evolved learning how to catch eat and digest plants and each other, the plants were growing harder to digest, perfecting their "food" digestion and interacting with the animals in ways of providing them thigns they wanted to eat MORE than their vital systems (roots and leaves) such as fruit, which in turn distributed seeds and meant for each meal an animal got at the plant's expene it was laying seeds of twenty more. That, in short is the answer to your question. It can be found in biology textbooks and journals, and I recommend you read some.

Answer 3

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/GeminivirusResistantTomatoes/MERC/Tomato/Tomato.html

Answer 4

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 (crap, poo poo) and eventually they realized this was what was making it grow and boom, humans invented ancient farming.

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

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 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

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

Answer 9

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 10

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