Although farming is a major strategy for Austin in the new year, under the current conditions, hunting and gathering are also essential stages for acquiring food.
Moreover, the ice and snow on the ground have just thawed, making it unsuitable to farm at such an early time.
While the climate of the Kawa Great Forest roughly divides into cold winter and hot summer, in fact, if divided more meticulously, it could also be distinguished into spring and autumn like on Earth.
However, these spring and autumn seasons are extremely short, just a matter of ten days or so, barely noticeable. The inhabitants of the Kawa Great Forest, mainly illiterate Beastmen, only treat this brief spring and autumn as a transition between winter and summer, without a specific name for it, thus conventionally regarding a year in the Kawa Great Forest as having only two seasons, winter and summer.
