harvested

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Largely harvested in the wild by foragers—sometimes surreptitiously on private land—in the Northeast and Midwest, they make their way to grocers.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

The first commercial crop of pistachios in the U.S. was harvested in 1976, just a few years before the Iranian Revolution.

From Salon • May 6, 2026

The state’s natural salt “licks” had long been harvested by Native Americans, and by 1888 Michigan produced 40% of U.S.-manufactured salt.

From Barron's • May 2, 2026

"Not only were oysters harvested for food from the earliest days of colonization, but the reefs themselves were dredged and the shells crushed and burned to make lime for cement and mortar," she says.

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026

It was considered folklore—that the river monsters even existed, let alone that their pink blood was harvested as an elixir of immortality.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor