Synonyms of farming

farming 1 of 3

noun

ˈfär-miŋ 

as in agriculture

the science or occupation of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock

since an ancestor settled there in the 19th century, farming has been the only occupation for six generations of the family

Synonyms & Similar Words

• agriculture
• cultivation
• gardening
• horticulture
• husbandry
• agribusiness
• culture
• tillage
• farmwork
• agronomy
• aquaculture
• pastoralism
• agroforestry
• agroecology
• monoculture
• animal husbandry
• pomology
• hydroponics
• arboriculture
• mixed farming
• sharecropping

farming

2 of 3

adjective

as in agricultural

engaged in or concerned with agriculture

years of drought had a devastating impact on the region's farming communities

Synonyms & Similar Words

• agricultural
• agrarian
• agronomic
• rural
• arable
• monocultural
• bucolic
• aquacultural
• pastoral
• country
• pastoralist
• garden
• georgic
• arboricultural
• rustic
• villatic

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• urban
• industrial
• metropolitan
• nonagricultural
• industrialized
• metro

farming

3 of 3

verb

present participle of farm

as in cultivating

to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on

we're planning on farming 50 acres the first year

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cultivating
• harvesting
• planting
• tending
• tilling
• cropping
• reaping
• hoeing
• sharecropping
• harrowing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of farming

Noun

Most were built higher into livestock fences only in the last decades of the 18th and early decades of the 19th centuries, when sheep farming became the dominant form of agriculture in New England. — Matt Seaton, The Atlantic, 19 July 2026

Slurp local oysters and sample seafood on the waterfront terrace of La Cabane du Mimbeau, run by an oyster-farming family. — Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 19 July 2026

Adjective

Connecticut has also seen a boom in backyard growers popping up in suburban neighborhoods with micro-farming businesses becoming more popular. — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2026

Some of those people may be professional myrmecologists (scientists who specialize in the study of ants) and fourmiculture (ant-farming) enthusiasts. — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2026

Verb

With already slim margins and a grueling 365-day-a-year workload, fewer people see cattle farming as a viable way to make a living. — Claire Malon, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026

He’s been farming and gardening since 2008 with different neighborhood associations and other places in the city. — Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026