: a farm devoted to the production of vegetables for the market
truck farmernoun
Examples of truck farm in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebMark Fidrych retired and returned to his truck farm in Massachusetts.—Demetria Gallegos, WSJ, 14 May 2022 The heyday of the truck farm came after the Civil War.—Richard Campanella, NOLA.com, 1 Oct. 2020 The Ti Kee truck farm yielded profits as high as $2,000 a year, or close to $60,000 in today’s dollars.—Richard Campanella, NOLA.com, 1 Oct. 2020 By the 1890s, a hamlet of Chinese gardeners operated a truck farm at what is now the West Bank end of the Crescent City Connection.—Richard Campanella, NOLA.com, 1 Oct. 2020 In Milwaukee, Randall's grandfather worked as a laborer, and her parents rented a small truck farm on Capitol Drive in Wauwatosa.—Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2019
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