Farming Challenge

**LordCurlyton** · 01-19-2009, 01:17

We're in modern times, the guy is eccentric, no slaves (sort of illegal here in USA), but he wants only stuff grown from that time period. Money = not an object. It just has to be able to survive in West-Central Florida, so wet, cool winters with few frost days and hot, drier but not parchingly dry summers. Land is fairly fertile and I believe our weather codnitions, while not strictly "Mediterranean", are close enough that most anything that can make it in a Roman villa in Italy could have made it here.

**machinor** · 01-19-2009, 01:27

Wheat and olives are certainly quite on to of the list.

**Mooks** · 01-19-2009, 03:29

Lol you cant literally have slaves, but you can pay people to act like them (Prostitutes, maids, butlers).

**antisocialmunky** · 01-19-2009, 03:32

Then I'd goto N. Africa and grow Silphium. Valuable stuff that was.

**Maion Maroneios** · 01-19-2009, 14:58

Yeah, when Kyrene monopolized it it was. Lost its value (sort of) when it became more widespread.

Anyway, olives and wheat is a must. So basically you have your own bread and olives/olive oil. You could also have some grapes, red ones that is, so you also add wine to that list. As well as the grapes themselves, of course. Lettuce and cabbage can also be added, as well as carrots, onions and garlic. Especially garlic. Add some fig trees, some apple trees and some berry bushes and you're a king. Oh yeah and flowers too. Ancients loved flowers, they even grew them themselves.

So now you have more or less anything you want. If you buy some cows, sheep, chickens, pigs, goats and a couple of dogs then you are complete. Just have the 'slaves' do the work and you reap the benefits of being self-sufficient.

Maion