: a farm devoted to the production of vegetables for the market
truck farmer
noun
: one that operates a truck farm
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Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
For decades, the Roberts Cut Off Road home behind the dance hall belonged to the Maroon family, Lebanese-American grocers when Greek and Lebanese built a community around their truck farms in the valley of the West Fork of the Trinity River.
—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Sep. 2025
Asawa was born in Norwalk, California, and raised on a truck farm.
—News Desk, Artforum, 5 Dec. 2024
Neighboring Batestown flourished in the late 19th and early 20th century as an unincorporated community where residents raised vegetables on truck farms and livestock, said Reid, who grew up there.
—Robert Mitchell, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
Mark Fidrych retired and returned to his truck farm in Massachusetts.
—Demetria Gallegos, WSJ, 14 May 2022
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
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Noun
At one end was a big frame house which once upon a time rose all alone in the middle of a truck farm.
—Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
For decades, the Roberts Cut Off Road home behind the dance hall belonged to the Maroon family, Lebanese-American grocers when Greek and Lebanese built a community around their truck farms in the valley of the West Fork of the Trinity River.
—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Sep. 2025
Asawa was born in Norwalk, California, and raised on a truck farm.
—News Desk, Artforum, 5 Dec. 2024
Neighboring Batestown flourished in the late 19th and early 20th century as an unincorporated community where residents raised vegetables on truck farms and livestock, said Reid, who grew up there.
—Robert Mitchell, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
Mark Fidrych retired and returned to his truck farm in Massachusetts.
—Demetria Gallegos, WSJ, 14 May 2022
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
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“Truck farm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truck%20farm. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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