[RedMonqey]

Families have been running farms in this country for about 10,000 years ~ maybe more

muawiyah

this country is about 230 yers old
terycarl

There were farming communities cultivating this country(land) with corn, pumpkins and potatoes, to name a few, long before The founding Fathers ever put pen to paper to frame the Constitution.

They were called Indians, or if you will, Native Americans.

[terycarl]

There were farming communities cultivating this country(land) with corn, pumpkins and potatoes, to name a few, long before The founding Fathers ever put pen to paper to frame the Constitution. They were called Indians, or if you will, Native Americans.

not really...the indians were mostly hunter-gatherers..I don't recall them having an agricultural background....did they plow and plant ??? They ate a lot of what grew naturally, hunted the enormous amount of wildlife that were present here. The Europeans, when they came, established farming methods and actually reproduced agricultural products through their own efforts

[muawiyah]

Covered that later. Without the agricultural developments of the American indians this world would probably be unable to to support more than 500 million people instead of its current 7 billion.