fallow field
Unplanted agricultural land
A fallow field is farmland left unplanted for a season or more, allowing the soil to rest and recover nutrients.
The practice prevents exhaustion from continuous cultivation.
Figuratively, any dormant period of deliberate inactivity meant to restore productive capacity: After the divorce, she treated that year as a fallow field for her creativity.
- plowedTurned soil for sowing
- barrenUnable to produce
- crop rotationAlternating field plantings yearly
- dormantInactive but capable
- soilGround matter for planting
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