home-growern.
/ˌhəʊmˈɡrəʊə/, U.S. /ˌhoʊmˈɡroʊər/ A domestic (as opposed to foreign) grower of produce; a person who grows his or her own produce.
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1801 Anti-Jacobin Rev. & Mag. Mar. 310 Neither of them intends to deprive the home grower of his fair profits.
1825 J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. 3 418 The home-grower is subject to many taxes, from which foreign corn is exempt.
1890 T. Greiner How to make Garden Pay xxviii. 152 A fine variety for the home grower, and profitable for the market gardener who sells the shelled bean.
1905 Nature 27 July 297/2 No competition on the part of the home-grower is possible with the banana imports from the Canaries and the West Indian islands.
1960 Life 4 Apr. 70 Unlike the commercial vegetable producer who must often choose vegetable varieties because they ship well or grow in uniform size, the home grower can choose purely for good eating and hardiness.
1996 Independent 14 Oct. i. 1/5 Home-growers..are exploiting a legal loop-hole that allows them to buy cannabis seeds and the growing equipment legitimately.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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