A farm on an estate that is set aside to provide produce for the owner of the estate.
〈主英,南非〉(为提供庄园主自用农产品的)家用农场
Example sentencesExamples
The produce gardens are a relic of an era when all the wants of the house family and staff were provided by the estate's gardens and home farm.
Their eldest daughter runs what was the home farm, which has a wealth of ancient monuments and cropmarks (some of which are scheduled), and some fine traditional farm buildings.
Anthony, still working the home farm, looked round for ways of increasing its business potential, hit upon one of its great assets, a rushing spring of crystal clear water bursting out the hillside as Sykes Beck.
‘It was originally the home farm for a large estate owned by Bryant and May, the match business owners,’ says John, who works for the Ministry of Defence.
The home farm will be restored and adapted for parks services and the Flint Cottage - a former gamekeeper's house, now derelict - will be brought back to its original appearance.
It served as a home farm for the cathedral-priory.
A Cumbrian farmer promised the Prince during a visit to the stricken county that he could have a Ryeland ram and ewe for his 1,080-acre home farm at Highgrove once the crisis was over.
The housekeeper lived in the other house and did the dinners for everyone working on the home farm.
He attended the local school in Drimina and later went to work on the home farm as young boys of the times did; there being no local secondary school to further education.
Definition of home farm in US English:
home farm
noun
British, South African
A farm on an estate that is set aside to provide produce for the owner of the estate.
〈主英,南非〉(为提供庄园主自用农产品的)家用农场
Example sentencesExamples
Anthony, still working the home farm, looked round for ways of increasing its business potential, hit upon one of its great assets, a rushing spring of crystal clear water bursting out the hillside as Sykes Beck.
A Cumbrian farmer promised the Prince during a visit to the stricken county that he could have a Ryeland ram and ewe for his 1,080-acre home farm at Highgrove once the crisis was over.
He attended the local school in Drimina and later went to work on the home farm as young boys of the times did; there being no local secondary school to further education.
‘It was originally the home farm for a large estate owned by Bryant and May, the match business owners,’ says John, who works for the Ministry of Defence.
Their eldest daughter runs what was the home farm, which has a wealth of ancient monuments and cropmarks (some of which are scheduled), and some fine traditional farm buildings.
The housekeeper lived in the other house and did the dinners for everyone working on the home farm.
It served as a home farm for the cathedral-priory.
The home farm will be restored and adapted for parks services and the Flint Cottage - a former gamekeeper's house, now derelict - will be brought back to its original appearance.
The produce gardens are a relic of an era when all the wants of the house family and staff were provided by the estate's gardens and home farm.