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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Leif" data-source="post: 4285977" data-attributes="member: 48762">Ask a Druid About Biology, Why Don't You??? YAWWWWNNNN!!![sblock=Scotley]Barrel wrights=COOPERS <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> [/sblock][sblock=Alvar and Pandak]"We know what part of the world we are going to, don't we?  If so, then it should be a realtively simple matter to discern what the climate will be like there, whether tropical, sub-tropical, temperate, or arctic, and a general idea of the amount of rainfall will be necessary, too.  Then we can judge a fair approximation of the climate and that will put us well on our way to finding good plants for cultivation there.  The next hurdle will be the soil.  I know of no way to guess what the soil will be like until we get there, so we will need to bring a variety of plant species that can thrive in everything from very rich loam, to rocky earth, to sandy soil.  As far as livestock goes, we need to be very careful with the species that we introduce into a new environment.  It would be better if we could find some already domesticated local animals and raise them for our food.  But that may be difficult at first.  My recommendation for taking domestic animals would be for us to take goats.  They can live in very rocky, mountainous areas where they should be less likelly to displace native animals.  Plus, they will be very useful for us, providing not only good meat, but also milk and cheese.  Another advantage of goats is that they are relatively small, at least compared to your average cow.  So each individual goat will have a correspondingly smaller impact upon the enviromment.  Those are my first thoughts, anyway, but I'll shut up now.  I haven't spoken so much since I was well into my cups last Christmas!"[/sblock]</blockquote>

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