Wildculture
Wildculture is the umbrella term used to include all aspects and styles of "hunting and gathering" food harvesting.[1] Wildculture - harvesting the bounty of nature - was the method of food gathering prior to the development of agriculture thousands of years ago. Some wildculture has persisted side by side with agriculture, with some cultures and communities using both styles of food acquisition,[2] and a few reliant solely on wildculture.
As well as organic standards for agriculture, there are now standards for organic wildculture. The total hectares of wild harvested organic land now exceeds the total of certified organic agriculture land. [3] Finland, Zambia and Brazil lead the world, and together account for more than half of the 33.8 million hectares of certified organic wildculture land reported in 2008. [1]
The term "wild culture" was first used by Canadian multi-disciplinary artist Whitney Smith in 1986 to describe "the poetic ecotone between nature and society."[4] In 1987 Smith founded a literary magazine in Toronto, "The Journal of Wild Culture", published by the Society for the Preservation of Wild Culture, from 1987-1991, and followed by the book, "Wild Culture: Ecology and Imagination",[5] edited by Whitney Smith and Christopher Lowry[6]. The journal published two versions of a "Wild Foods Field Guide" in 1988 and 1990, plus wild food recipes in various issues.[7]
Australian author Juleigh Robins has advocated the use and consumption of wild food and presents a series of recipes for introducing the flavours, looks, and textures of Australian wild foods.[8]
See also
References
- ^ Paull, John, 2008, Wild Organics: A Frontier Shift from Agriculture to Wildculture, Journal of Bio-Dynamics Tasmania, 90: 14-19
- ^ Bellwood, Peter, 2005, First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies, Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA
- ^ Willer, Helga. et al., 2008, The World of Organic Agriculture, Statistics and Emerging Trends, IFOAM, Bonn
- ^ ”Ryerson Review of Journalism”, April 1991, Megan Park, ”Call of the Wild”, p. 52.
- ^ Smith, Whitney, 1992, "Wild Culture: Ecology and Imagination", Somerville House Books, Toronto, ISBN 978-0921051626
- ^ "Specimens from The Journal of Wild Culture, Open Library". Openlibrary.org. 2008-11-01. Retrieved 2010-02-07.
- ^ Hedges, Hank, 1988, "Wild Foods Field Guide", "Journal of Wild Culture", Vol. I, No. 3, p. 32. Brill, Steve, 1990, "Wild Foods Field Guide", "Journal of Wild Culture", Vol. II, No. 4, p. 44.
- ^ Robins, Juleigh, 2009, Wild Food: 100 Recipes Using Australian Ingredients, Penguin, Melbourne, ISBN 9781920989958.