kontextmaschine:

You gather up windfall. If you’re close enough to enough human settlement that all the windfall has been taken, there should be a hotel or at least a tavern or something.

Oh and like all the “farmer’s daughter” jokes that start from the premise of a traveler sleeping the night in a farmer’s barn come from here (and that given how American farmland tended to settle on a homestead and not village basis the inhabitants would also likely not see anyone unrelated often* and under those situations women are often very giving to outsiders, cf. Captain Cook and the reputation of Pacific island girls encountering American sailors)

* here think about the stereotype of the redneck Cletus impregnating his sister. Then realize that one factor behind Prohibition/Temperance in the 19th/early 20th agrarian America was that our rural drinking culture wasn’t “beers and drinking songs with the fellas” but “liquor and abusing your family”