farmstead

noun farm·stead \ ˈfärm-ˌsted \

|Updated on: 6 Aug 2018

Examples: farmstead in a Sentence

Definition of farmstead

: the buildings and adjacent service areas of a farm; broadly : a farm with its buildings

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Examples of farmstead in a Sentence

many of the area's proud, old farmsteads have been bulldozed by developers to make way for condominiums

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The former executive chef and general manager at Canton’s Cardinal Tavern is serving as an apprentice at two Baltimore County farms, and recently launched a catering business and farmstead.

— sarah meehan, Washington Post, "A training program for new farmers is teaching its biggest class yet," 30 June 2018
Driver could also see extensive crop marks denoting the presence of the Roman or Iron Age settlement of Trewen, which was once either a farmstead or a villa.

— brigit katz, Smithsonian, "A Heat Wave is Revealing Centuries-Old Sites in Wales," 11 July 2018
The former executive chef and general manager at Canton’s Cardinal Tavern is serving as an apprentice at two Baltimore County farms, and recently launched a catering business and farmstead.

— sarah meehan, Washington Post, "A training program for new farmers is teaching its biggest class yet," 30 June 2018
Riverview Farmstead Open House The Forest Preserve District of Will County will hold an open house of its Riverview Farmstead from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 21, at the farmstead preserve on Book Road, south of Hassert Boulevard in Naperville.

— michelle mullins, Naperville Sun, "Naperville News Digest," 29 June 2018
The Woodbridge farmstead has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1999.

— Courant Community, "Community News For The Manchester Edition," 2 July 2018
The former executive chef and general manager at Canton’s Cardinal Tavern is serving as an apprentice at two Baltimore County farms, and recently launched a catering business and farmstead.

— sarah meehan, Washington Post, "A training program for new farmers is teaching its biggest class yet," 30 June 2018
The former executive chef and general manager at Canton’s Cardinal Tavern is serving as an apprentice at two Baltimore County farms, and recently launched a catering business and farmstead.

— sarah meehan, baltimoresun.com, "A training program for new farmers is teaching its biggest class yet," 28 June 2018
This to-and-fro’ing might have led to a common ground for grazing, with laws of its own, and certainly open to reivers: mayhem-makers whose specialty was cattle rustling and quicksilver raids on farmsteads and whole towns.

— peter lewis, The Christian Science Monitor, "'The Debatable Land' probes the history of a chink in the Scottish-English border," 19 June 2018

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