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Definition of home farm in English: home farmnoun South African, British A farm on an estate that is set aside to provide produce for the owner of the estate. 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 farmnoun British, South African A farm on an estate that is set aside to provide produce for the owner of the estate. 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.
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