truck farming
Growing market produce
Truck farming is the commercial growing of vegetables and fruits for sale at markets, especially in areas near cities.
The term has nothing to do with trucks—it comes from an older sense of truck meaning barter or exchange.
A truck farm typically produces diverse crops for local consumption rather than staple commodities for distant markets.
- vegetablesEdible plants, not fruits
- seasonal produceCurrently harvested local food
- growing seasonTime crops can mature
- irrigationArtificial water supply for agriculture
- produceMake or manufacture
fresh picked · pick your own · harvest · kitchen gardens · husbandry · community gardens · transplanting · agriculture · heirloom varieties · roadside stands · cash crops · market gardening · agronomics · raised beds · intercropping · fertilization · smallholding · back forty
- farmingcrop, crops, harvest, harvests, harvesting
- vegetable gardeningtomatoes, carrots, lettuce, peppers, cucumbers
- Appalachian economycoal barons, company towns, scrip, black lung, strip mining
- Reconstruction Southsharecropping, freedmen, Freedmen's Bureau, carpetbaggers, scalawags
truck farmingindustrial agriculture
Large-scale mechanized farming
factory farming · agribusiness · corporate farming · plantation agriculture · mechanized farming
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