market garden

Thân thiện

A family picks fresh vegetables in their market garden.

Definition

Noun: A small-scale agricultural enterprise, typically located near an urban area, where fruits, vegetables, flowers, or other high-value crops are intensively cultivated primarily for sale to the public, to local retailers, or at a farmers' market, rather than for large-scale wholesale or personal consumption.

Usage

A "market garden" refers to the physical land and its operation focused on commercial horticulture. * The family runs a successful market garden on the outskirts of the city, supplying several local restaurants. * He decided to leave his office job and start a market garden specializing in heirloom tomatoes. * The soil in this region is particularly fertile, making it ideal for market garden production.

Advanced Usage

• As a concept in sustainable agriculture: The term is often associated with local food systems, organic farming, and direct-to-consumer sales models.
  • The rise of community-supported agriculture (CSA) has revitalized the traditional market garden model.
• Contrast with other farming: It is distinguished from large-scale arable farming (e.g., wheat fields) and from a non-commercial home garden.
  • While a farm might grow hundreds of acres of corn, a market garden focuses on a diverse selection of crops on a few acres.

Variants and Related Words

• Market gardener (noun): The person who owns or works a market garden.
  • The market gardener arrives at the stall before dawn to set up.
• Market gardening (noun or gerund): The activity or business of growing produce in a market garden.
  • She studied market gardening to learn sustainable practices.

Synonyms

• Truck farm (common in American English, though sometimes implying a slightly larger scale)
• Smallholding (broader, can include livestock)
• Commercial garden

Related Phrases/Compounds

• Market-garden produce: The fruits and vegetables grown on such an operation.
  • The quality of the market-garden produce is noticeably superior.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a garden where fruit and vegetables are grown for marketing