vegetable farming
Growing edible plants
Vegetable farming is the agricultural practice of growing vegetables for food, whether on small plots or large commercial operations.
The term emphasizes cultivation of edible plants like tomatoes, peppers, and leafy greens, as distinct from grain farming or livestock raising: She left her office job to try vegetable farming.
Also called market gardening or truck farming when produce is sold locally.
- zucchiniElongated green summer squash
- hoeWeeding and tilling implement
- broccoliCruciferous vegetable with florets
- root vegetablesEdible underground plant parts
- carrotEdible orange taproot
intercropping · frost dates · hydroponics · cucumber · heirloom tomatoes · crop rotation · leafy greens · tomato · lettuce · harvest · pick your own · composting · tractor · irrigation system · weeding · washing · seed drill · drip irrigation
- plant industriescotton industry, tobacco industry, tea industry, coffee industry, sugar industry
- agriculturefarms, crops, farm, farmers, crop yields
- farmingfarm, farms, farmer, farmers, crop
- farmworkharvesting, farmworkers, planting, farm labor, milking
- primary industriesforestry, ranching, quarrying, aquaculture, lumbering
- African farmingmaize, cassava, sorghum, millet, yams
vegetable farminglivestock raising
Breeding farm animals commercially
animal husbandry · cattle ranching · poultry farming · dairy farming · pig farming
vegetable farminghunting
Pursuing wild game
foraging · gathering · hunting and gathering · wild harvesting · fishing
vegetable farmingcotton farming
Cultivating plants for textile fiber
tobacco farming · floriculture · timber production · forestry · grain farming