Page 7 - Daily Life in British North America -Welcome to British North America

Early settlers used a
Framing Questions
method called scatter-seed
What challenges did settlers in
farming. They would toss
British North America encounter
the seeds randomly into when trying to provide food

the fields. But only about for their families? How did they

overcome these challenges?
half of them would grow.

This made it difficult to

harvest crops. Later they began planting seeds in rows.

This made the harvest easier.

In summer and fall, there were plenty of fresh foods to

eat. But this was not the case in winter. Women and older

girls pickled, dried, smoked, and salted foods to preserve

them for the cold months. Indigenous Peoples, such as the

Huron-Wendat, first taught settlers how to preserve meat.

They would cut the meat into strips and put it out in the

hot sun or smoke it over the fire to dry it out. This created

a type of jerky that could be stored for many months

without spoiling.

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