wildcraftn.
/ˈwʌɪl(d)krɑːft/, U.S. /ˈwaɪl(d)ˌkræf(t)/ Originally U.S.
Originally: skill in or knowledge of matters relating to survival in a wilderness environment. Subsequently: the gathering of herbs and other natural produce from the wild. Cf. wildcrafter n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > picking or gathering other things
wool-gathering1581
mossing1700
acorning1818
cocksfooting1896
turpentining1910
wildcraft1924
1924 R. S. Spears Camping, Woodcraft & Wildcraft v. 22 Wildcraft, or woodcraft, means the know-how of hunting, of nature observation, details of wilderness science, and includes the subject of camps and camp-making. Perhaps ‘Wildcraft’ would be the better term, since some of the most important outdoor ventures are of deserts, high mountains, many waters, prairies and open spaces, and woods are only part of the available unfenced territories.
1927 T. Whelan Wilderness Hunting & Wildcraft xv. 172 One of the most interesting phases of hunting and wildcraft.
1993 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 17 June (Ventura County ed.) j14 There's even a name for this form of sustainable agriculture: ‘wildcraft’. That's the practice of gathering herbs in their natural setting without trampling down the fields and forests or leaving things dead in one's wake.
1997 Santa Fe New Mexican (Nexis) 28 Feb. 17 This little episode highlights two basic facets of Gioia Tama's personality: her confident knowledge of wildcraft and how to eat off the land, and her compassion and respect for the wild creatures.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
wildcraftv.
/ˈwʌɪl(d)krɑːft/, /ˈwʌɪl(d)kraft/, U.S. /ˈwaɪl(d)ˌkræft/ Originally U.S.
transitive. To gather (herbs or other natural produce) from the wild; (also) to prepare (herbal remedies, etc.) utilizing such produce. Also (esp. in early use) intransitive.
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1970 V. Cleaver & B. Cleaver Where Lilies Bloom vi. 74 We wildcrafted that day—finished digging all the goldenseal.
1974 N.Y. Times 8 June 18/5 The four plucky mountain youngsters are ‘wildcrafting’ for survival ([in] a fascinating sequence about medicinal herbs).
1982 Herbal Q. Autumn 4/1 As a sheepherder in Southern Idaho I..spend a great deal of time ‘wildcrafting’... I see quite a variety of edible and medicinal herbs.
1988 WomenWise 10 No. 3. 4/1 A woman recently came by my lab to get a coltsfoot extract I wildcrafted and tinctured.
1992 Utne Reader Mar. 139/1 (advt.) Wild Desert Tea... Wildcrafted by us since 1972.
2002 Santa Fe New Mexican (Nexis) 9 Oct. c1 More recently, he's turned his attention closer to home, setting himself the task of only eating foods grown, hunted or wildcrafted within a 250-mile radius of his desert home.
Derivatives
ˈwildcrafted adj.
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1988 HerbalGram Summer 24/3 Two herb industry associations adopted a resolution that would discourage the collection and sale of wildcrafted Lady's Slipper Root.
1997 New Product News (Nexis) Nov. 40 Chaga and Maitake extracts contain wildcrafted mushrooms gathered at the peak of potency.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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