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In British usage, a smallholding is a piece of land and its adjacent living quarters for the smallholder and stabling for farm animals, on a smaller scale than that of a farm but larger than an allotment, usually under 50 acres (0.2 km²). It is often established for the breeding of farm animals on an organic basis on free-range pastures. Alternatively, the smallholder may concentrate on the growing of vegetables by various traditional methods or in a more modern way using plastic covers, tunnelling or cloches for quick growth. Image File history File links Nuvola_apps_browser. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary logo Wiktionary is a sister project to Wikipedia intended to be a free wiki dictionary (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ... This article is about the building; for another meaning, see stability. ... Bales of hay on a farm near Ames, Iowa A farm is the basic unit in agriculture. ... Look up allotment in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... An acre is an English unit of area, which is also frequently used in the United States and some Commonwealth countries. ... Bales of hay on a farm near Ames, Iowa A farm is the basic unit in agriculture. ... Free range is a method of farming husbandry where the animals are permitted to roam freely instead of being contained in small sheds and cages, as in factory farming. ... Vegetables in a market Vegie garden Venn diagram representing the relationship between fruits and vegetables For other uses, see Vegetable (disambiguation). ... A cloche may refer to the following: A glass covering for protecting plants from the cold temperatures. ...

Generally, a smallholding offers its owner a means of achieving self-sufficiency as to his and his family's own needs which he may be able to supplement by selling surplus produce, and to that end, temporary booths or more permanent shop facilities are often part of a smallholding. Autonomy is the condition of something that does not depend on anything else. ... Surplus means the quantity left over, after conducting an activity; the quantity which has not been used up, and can refer to: budget surplus, the opposite of a budget deficit economic surplus Surplus product or surplus value in Marxian economics physical surplus in the economic theory of Piero Sraffa Operating... Booth may mean various open types of cabins and similar light constructions, often temporary or inside a building: Telephone booth (or the movie Phone Booth) Polling booth, see polling station Photo booth Ticket booth (see also box office) Toll booth, see toll road Booth in a restaurant Booth in a... Look up shop in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A shop is an enclosed location where a specific activity is carried out. ...

Third World usage

In many Third World countries, a smallholding is a small plot of land with low rental value, used to grow crops. ^[1] For the Jamaican reggae band, see Third World (band). ...

Hobby Farm

A hobby farm in Australian usage is a variety of smallholding that may be as small as 2 hectares up to a self-sustaining farm size, that allows the "city farmer" to have a house and a small number of animals or small crop fields or grape vines. A hectare (symbol ha) is a unit of area, equal to 10,000 square meters, commonly used for measuring land area. ... Species Vitis acerifolia Vitis aestivalis Vitis amurensis Vitis arizonica Vitis x bourquina Vitis californica Vitis x champinii Vitis cinerea Vitis x doaniana Vitis girdiana Vitis labrusca Vitis x labruscana Vitis monticola Vitis mustangensis Vitis x novae-angliae Vitis palmata Vitis riparia Vitis rotundifolia Vitis rupestris Vitis shuttleworthii Vitis tiliifolia Vitis...

In New Zealand this is known as a "lifestyle block."

Pick-your-own-fruit (or vegetables) farms

In a separate development, so-called pick-your-own-fruit (or vegetable) farms (farm being a convenient term rather than a reflection on its size) have appeared over the years in the vicinity of towns, which in type of management do belong to the category of smallholdings rather than farms.

They usually consist of a large field which has been subdivided into strips of areas for fruit trees, shrubs or various types of vegetables, all the kinds of produce which come to ripen in their different seasons. In this type of establishment, once the initial layout and investment (in plants, trees, shrubs, etc.) has been completed, only the replanting of annual vegetables, the maintenance of perennials, the minimum weeding of the area needs to be undertaken, while the consumers themselves do their own harvesting. Additionally, of course, facilities have to be set up so that the customer may pay for the amount of produce they have been able to 'pick'. A fruit tree is a tree bearing fruit — the structures formed by the ripened ovary of a flower containing one or more seeds. ... A broom shrub in flower A shrub or bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 6 m tall. ... Ripening is a process in fruit that causes them to become more edible. ... Annual, from the Latin annuum, or year means pertaining to a year or happening every year. ... A Red Valerian, a perennial plant. ... Hay bales after harvest in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany In agriculture, harvesting is the process of gathering mature crops from the fields. ...

Notes and references

1. ↑ Bunnett, R.B. (2002). Interactive Geography 4, pp. 125, 315. SNP Pan Pacific Publishing. ISBN 981-208-657-9.