as in gardens
a place where people grow fruit trees
an apple orchard
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Recent Examples of orchards
This year’s festival is an expansion of the annual Apple Festival of past years, offering insights into the early history of the area, the pioneers who planted apple orchards, games, square dancing, food, music and crafts.
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Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
Capable of spraying, towing, lifting via a CAT 1 3-point system, and hauling, the Max is built to handle tough terrain and heavy loads across orchards, bedded and row crops, and beyond.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2025
His land holdings included a tobacco farm, orchards, a swampy area adjoining a creek, and his humble family home.
—James Powel, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
About 15 miles of hiking trails loop around the park’s namesake 1,282-foot peak and pass through a number of experimental American chestnut orchards.
—Eric J. Wallace, Outside, 24 Oct. 2025
Stay in the countryside, walk through the orchards, meet the growers, and taste several dishes infused with cherry—from gazpacho to cake.
—Nigel Hack, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2025
At sunset, lights the color of peach orchards, and the road was lit with candles made of honey wax.
—Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
Ranegras plain basin is home to about 2,500 people, a flock of millions of egg-laying hens at Rose Acre Farms, some pistachio orchards, several dairies, feedlots and thousands of acres of alfalfa.
—Clara Migoya, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Tuttle grows more than 30 varieties of apples in orchards split up across the 200-acre farm, about a quarter of the acreage is devoted to long rows of apple trees.
—Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 14 Oct. 2025
Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
Capable of spraying, towing, lifting via a CAT 1 3-point system, and hauling, the Max is built to handle tough terrain and heavy loads across orchards, bedded and row crops, and beyond.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2025
His land holdings included a tobacco farm, orchards, a swampy area adjoining a creek, and his humble family home.
—James Powel, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
About 15 miles of hiking trails loop around the park’s namesake 1,282-foot peak and pass through a number of experimental American chestnut orchards.
—Eric J. Wallace, Outside, 24 Oct. 2025
Stay in the countryside, walk through the orchards, meet the growers, and taste several dishes infused with cherry—from gazpacho to cake.
—Nigel Hack, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2025
At sunset, lights the color of peach orchards, and the road was lit with candles made of honey wax.
—Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
Ranegras plain basin is home to about 2,500 people, a flock of millions of egg-laying hens at Rose Acre Farms, some pistachio orchards, several dairies, feedlots and thousands of acres of alfalfa.
—Clara Migoya, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Tuttle grows more than 30 varieties of apples in orchards split up across the 200-acre farm, about a quarter of the acreage is devoted to long rows of apple trees.
—Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 14 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for orchards
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Matthew Hunt gardens in the Talega enclave within the city of San Clemente, and praises his purple Polygala x dalmaisiana, commonly known as sweet pea shrub.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
8 Nov. 2025
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Located near Queen Elizabeth’s palace in Windsor, the sprawling property has eight bedrooms, classic English interiors, gorgeous gardens, tennis courts, a library, and an 18th-century orangery that John restored with the help of designers Andrew Protheroe and Adrian Cooper-Grigg.—
Mekita Rivas,
Architectural Digest,
7 Nov. 2025
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Spend an afternoon exploring vineyards along the Long Island Wine Trail; Kontokosta Winery in Greenpoint is the North Fork’s only waterfront winery, and Borghese Vineyard and Winery is the region’s oldest vineyard and a lovely place to picnic.—
Sarah Buder,
AFAR Media,
2 Oct. 2025
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As for the current harvest, some local vineyards, like Ascona on Skyline, are completely sold out and most of the fruit has been picked, according to vineyard manager Ken Swegles.—
Laura Ness,
Mercury News,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Smarter, more granular monitoring systems can help direct funding to small farms, giving them access to the emerging global carbon market.—
Kaveh Zahedi,
Time,
3 Nov. 2025
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They had been driven from their farms by drought and poor agricultural practices that left topsoil vulnerable to erosion.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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McGuane’s cowboys lose fights—for women, for their ranches, for their dreams—and tend to know when they’ve been beaten.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
30 Oct. 2025
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The pack became unusually accustomed to feeding on livestock from nearby ranches, ultimately killing 87 cows, calves and sheep in just over six months, according to state wildlife officials.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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Inside deserted clapboard farmsteads, palatial Antebellum-era plantation houses and maximalist Queen Anne-style structures, Sansivero has discovered many residences that were never emptied, offering a portal into another life.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on the shores of Lake Michigan features miles of sand beach, lush forests, clear inland lakes, unique flora and fauna, towering bluffs, an island lighthouse, coastal villages, picturesque farmsteads and more.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Orchards.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orchards. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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