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词汇 hobby farm
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Definition of hobby farm in English:

hobby farm

noun
  • 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."

Derivatives

  • hobby farmer

  • noun
    • 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 farm

noun
  • 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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