The Evolution of Horticulture

The take up of horticulture varied somewhat region to region for different reasons. In California it's thought population density was low with an abundance of natural resources and therefore people chose to continue a hunter-gatherer social structure. Further north in northern Canadian regions agriculture was adopted less because it offered little advantage given the shorter growing season. But from southern Canada to Florida farming formed part at least of their subsistence and adapted to suit so many eastern woodlandsPeople began to live in semi-permanent villages with maybe 100 to 200 inhabitants in each. A village which had about 20 to 30 dwellings might have had about two to 300 acres under cultivation to support them. The proportion of food produced by hunting compared