The owner of a small agricultural enterprise, especially an orchard; a smallholder.
he picked grapes for a blockie and cut wood for the pumping station
Example sentencesExamples
We were going to an anti-gas protest in a town of about 1,000 people, most of whom live off the grid on plots of 30–250 acres and refer to themselves as blockies.
The number of blockies was low—some people have scraped up enough money to buy a few acres of land, but are struggling to find the money to build a house on that land.
Dozens of blockies had written hundreds of submissions, held countless meetings, spent thousands of dollars, and fronted the town planners on several occasions.
The fruit blockies didn't want the rain yet as they're midway through the grape harvest, and if the weather stays cool, they will be okay.
The company thus reversed a policy it had held for several years and ended a bitter campaign waged by the blockies against the development.
He reports that "Blockies say no to housing proposal".
Time and again the blockies had to fight to protect their chosen environment.
He moved in 1936 to the home missions churches in the midst of the blockies of the Murray irrigation area.
I went to where the blockies live.
Since Monday, local blockies have blockaded gas workers from leaving their camp, about 300 kilometres north-west of Brisbane.
Origin
1940s: from block in the sense 'a small parcel of land' + -ie.