Sentence:  Both the foraging in fields and woods and the small <WSD>husbandries</WSD> of household and barn have now been almost entirely replaced by the "consumer economy," which assumes that it is better to buy whatever one needs than to find it or make it or grow it. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The occupation or work of a husbandman or farmer; the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock; agriculture.