Prehistoric hunter-gatherers ate fruit, berries and nuts, so how did early farmers decide to cultivate grain?
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They also collected grains and brought them home with them, to make a kind of porridge and some flatbread. A few of those grains got lost accidentally around their camp and so the cereals grew up near it, or possibly they’ve intentionally played around with planting the collected grain, we don’t know for sure. Hunter-gatherers are aware of how plants grow from seeds, and there is no reason to assume that they didn’t do some recreational gardening basically for the fun of it, same as modern people do.
Their dependency on farming must have increased gradually: at first farmed grain was just a supplement in case other food sources failed, but over time it occupied more and more of their diet, until it became their staple food, because of the high efficiency of grain cultivation.
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