Throughout his childhood, his family lived on a succession of truck farms in Arizona and southern California.
By the late nineteenth century when agricultural boosters arrived, they found a ‘derelict’ not ‘pristine ‘Everglades and set out to create subtropical truck farms.’
Truck derives from the old French troquer meaning ‘to barter; give in exchange ‘(hence the US usage of truck farm for a market garden, because its produce was often bartered rather than sold; it has nothing to do with vehicles).’
In the 1950s the land on the western edge of the city of Albany was largely truck farms.
Gone were the orchards, truck farms, and grasslands of his childhood.
Definition of truck farm in US English:
truck farm
noun
A farm that produces vegetables for the market.
Example sentencesExamples
Truck derives from the old French troquer meaning ‘to barter; give in exchange ‘(hence the US usage of truck farm for a market garden, because its produce was often bartered rather than sold; it has nothing to do with vehicles).’
In the 1950s the land on the western edge of the city of Albany was largely truck farms.
Gone were the orchards, truck farms, and grasslands of his childhood.
By the late nineteenth century when agricultural boosters arrived, they found a ‘derelict’ not ‘pristine ‘Everglades and set out to create subtropical truck farms.’
Throughout his childhood, his family lived on a succession of truck farms in Arizona and southern California.