>http://www.sciam.com/2000/0200issue/0200wonders.html
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>- Hans

<Extracted from the article >

<The wild harvest could be boiled or steamed for porridge. "A family group
... working slowly upslope as the season progressed, could easily harvest
wild cereal over a three-week span, and without working very hard could
gather more grain than a family could possibly consume in a year," >

<Harlan's wild einkorn crop yielded him an energy output about 50 times his
work input; hardly any other system is so good. >

my comment
I bet they didn't count the time involved to process it and make it edible
 work that generally will  have been done by woman) with wild grains it must
not be easy to remove the envelop.

<. The foragers had for a long time been able to extend subtle plant-tending
to farm whenever they chose.>
The native of coastal BC were tending their wild berry patch ( weeding out
trees) and their very much prized starch stapple : the camas( lily family)

jean-claude