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Definition of hobby farm in English: hobby farmnoun A small farm operated primarily for pleasure rather than profit. 休闲农场,消闲农庄;消遣乐苑(主要为消遣而不是赢利而打理的小农场) Example sentencesExamples - One group makes up the majority of farm numbers, known as hobby farms.
- As a retirement "hobby" he and Claire developed an 18 acre hobby farm growing kiwifruit in the Nelson area.
- Both of his grandfathers were Wisconsin dairy farmers, and he grew up on a small "hobby farm" in southern Illinois.
- He is married with three children and lives on a hobby farm near Dubbo with Albert the contented Murray Grey bull.
- Melanie Lansing Winters (Susan Sarandon) lives a picturesque existence on an expansive hobby farm with her crotchety professor husband David (Christopher Plummer).
- In September 1992 the defendant sold his and bought a 25-acre hobby farm.
- Having grown up on a small hobby farm in northern New York, I have a lot of love for animals.
- He also loved his hobby farm, which he built with his own hands and where he raised horses.
- A population of about 6,000 live in detached houses on large urban blocks or on five acre hobby farms / market gardens.
- Subdivisions and hobby farms are sprouting up across the land, where property values now range from $3,000 to $24,000 per acre.
- The place had been a hobby farm owned by his wealthy stepfather who was now very ill.
- It was a hobby farm, whose owner was mostly concerned with his rosebushes.
- To her surprise, there was interest in dividing the land into 60-acre parcels and selling it for hobby farms.
- Property agents in New South Wales are reporting a deluge of capital city investors buying traditional country blocks and not just hobby farms.
- The magnitude of the voluntary subsidy by small-scale operators to their hobby farms now swamps the profit performance of larger farms.
- There are people with hobby farms, there are people with bush blocks.
- I call it my hobby farm.
- But from his perspective, the hobby farm in a remote, rural context was an oasis, not a prison.
- Despite growth in farm size and an increase in the number of smaller hobby farms, the total acreage in farming has declined as urban sprawl claims farmland.
- "We're seeing more growth in the hobby farms with small animals, horses and pets."
Derivativesnoun The breed is becoming popular with some hobby farmers who even run Alpacas as an investment. Example sentencesExamples - The only people who will benefit will be hobby farmers, not real farmers.
- In 1989, the couple purchased a 20-acre farm, thinking they would eventually plant a low-maintenance crop and ease into a life as hobby farmers.
- Originally hobby farmers, the couple went broke in the mid-1980s when the local oil fields failed.
- They compete for land with any number of investors, hobby farmers and speculators.
Definition of hobby farm in US English: hobby farmnoun A small farm operated for pleasure or supplemental income rather than for primary income. Example sentencesExamples - Despite growth in farm size and an increase in the number of smaller hobby farms, the total acreage in farming has declined as urban sprawl claims farmland.
- Both of his grandfathers were Wisconsin dairy farmers, and he grew up on a small "hobby farm" in southern Illinois.
- I call it my hobby farm.
- One group makes up the majority of farm numbers, known as hobby farms.
- He is married with three children and lives on a hobby farm near Dubbo with Albert the contented Murray Grey bull.
- In September 1992 the defendant sold his and bought a 25-acre hobby farm.
- As a retirement "hobby" he and Claire developed an 18 acre hobby farm growing kiwifruit in the Nelson area.
- To her surprise, there was interest in dividing the land into 60-acre parcels and selling it for hobby farms.
- He also loved his hobby farm, which he built with his own hands and where he raised horses.
- "We're seeing more growth in the hobby farms with small animals, horses and pets."
- Melanie Lansing Winters (Susan Sarandon) lives a picturesque existence on an expansive hobby farm with her crotchety professor husband David (Christopher Plummer).
- There are people with hobby farms, there are people with bush blocks.
- A population of about 6,000 live in detached houses on large urban blocks or on five acre hobby farms / market gardens.
- It was a hobby farm, whose owner was mostly concerned with his rosebushes.
- The magnitude of the voluntary subsidy by small-scale operators to their hobby farms now swamps the profit performance of larger farms.
- The place had been a hobby farm owned by his wealthy stepfather who was now very ill.
- Subdivisions and hobby farms are sprouting up across the land, where property values now range from $3,000 to $24,000 per acre.
- Having grown up on a small hobby farm in northern New York, I have a lot of love for animals.
- But from his perspective, the hobby farm in a remote, rural context was an oasis, not a prison.
- Property agents in New South Wales are reporting a deluge of capital city investors buying traditional country blocks and not just hobby farms.
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