tenant farm
Leased agricultural land
A tenant farm is agricultural land worked by someone who doesn't own it, paying rent to the landowner in cash or a share of the crops.
The arrangement was common in the American South after the Civil War and remains widespread globally.
His family worked a tenant farm for three generations before finally buying their own land.
- sharecropperFarmer paying rent in crops
- landlordProperty owner renting out
- leaseTemporary use contract
- croplandLand for growing produce
- back fortyRemote farm acreage
harvest · rent · plow · cotton · fields · laborer · soil · acreage · crop rotation · cash crop · agrarian · subsistence · dirt poor · rural · debt · landowner · cabin · tobacco
- landholdingsestate, estates, landholding, holdings, holding
- farm typesranch, ranches, plantation, plantations, vineyard
- farm agreementssharecropping, sharecrop, land lease, cash rent, crop insurance
- farmlandfields, field, barns, barn, farmhouses
- English estatesmanor, manor house, country house, great house, English manor
- farming settlementsagricultural town, farmstead, rural hamlet, peasant village, kibbutz
tenant farmfreehold
Permanent property title
homestead · family farm · proprietorship · demesne · manor
tenant farmlanded property
Owned land and buildings
plantation · commune · kibbutz
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