tenant farmer
Rents agricultural land
A tenant farmer is someone who farms land owned by another person, paying rent in cash or as a share of the crops produced.
The arrangement differs from owning farmland outright but also from being a hired laborer—the tenant farmer operates independently, making decisions about planting and harvesting while owing payment to a landlord.
His family had been tenant farmers on the same plot for three generations.
Fostering growth through care
- harvestGathering mature crops
- sowingPlanting for cultivation
- plowingTurning earth for crops
- irrigationArtificial water supply for agriculture
tillage · crop rotation · husbandry · planting · weeding · threshing · reaping · fertilizing
Plant fiber for textiles
- tobaccoDried smoking leaf
- landownerOne possessing real estate
- subsistenceMinimal means of living
- indebtednessState of owing money
cash crop · fieldwork · plantation · peonage · day labor · debt bondage · advances · picking
Feudal bound labor
- peasantryRural working class
- enclosureConfined, bordered space
- landed gentryLandowning class living on rents
- yeomanIndependent cultivator or naval clerk
cottager · crofter · feudal · manorial · tithe · gleaning · commons · agricultural reform
Temporary use contract
- rentPayment for temporary use
- landlordProperty owner renting out
- landownerOne possessing real estate
- evictionForced departure from rental
occupancy · leasehold · rental contract · sharecropping · rental period · security deposit · rent day · absentee landlord
cultivation
Fostering growth through care
irrigation · tillage · crop rotation · husbandry · planting · weeding · threshing · reaping · fertilizing · grazing
cotton
Plant fiber for textiles
- tobaccoDried smoking leaf
- landownerOne possessing real estate
- subsistenceMinimal means of living
indebtedness · cash crop · fieldwork · plantation · peonage · day labor · debt bondage · advances · picking
serfdom
Feudal bound labor
- peasantryRural working class
- enclosureConfined, bordered space
- landed gentryLandowning class living on rents
yeoman · cottager · crofter · feudal · manorial · tithe · gleaning · commons · agricultural reform · land reform
lease
Temporary use contract
eviction · occupancy · leasehold · rental contract · sharecropping · rental period · security deposit · rent day · absentee landlord · ground rent
countryside
Rural area beyond towns
rustic · bucolic · agrarian · meadow · barnyard · orchard · cottage · smallholding · hedgerow · country life
- farm workersfarmworker, hired hand, field hand, farmhand, harvester
- farmersgrower, smallholder, cultivator, rancher, homesteader
- farmworkharvesting, farmworkers, planting, milking, tilling
- farmworkersfarmhand, farmworker, field hand, fieldworker, hired hand
- occupantsoccupant, resident, dweller, inhabitant, occupier
- rural peoplevillagers, farmhand, farmworker, rancher, rural folk
tenant farmerlandowner
One possessing real estate
freeholder · yeoman farmer · owner-operator · property owner · homesteader
tenant farmerlandlord
Property owner renting out
absentee landlord · estate owner · plantation owner · feudal lord · landholder
tenant farmeryeoman
Independent cultivator or naval clerk
kulak · farm laborer · agricultural worker · farmhand · sharecropper
farm, farming, farmer, tenant, renter, farmland, farmers, farmhouse, tenants