truck-farm

We were cruising through truck-farm country now -- flat acres of furrowed land that looked dry, used up, like this was brutal August, not mild October.

Hollywood Nocturne Ellroy, James 1994

Green, had charge of the brick-yard, poultry, dairy, landscape gardening, horticulture, as well as the general farm and truck-farm.

Twenty-five years in the Black Belt, 1918

He painted this rotund and noble product of the truck-farm in varying aspects and with varying accessories.

Under the Skylights Henry Blake Fuller 1893

But for Jim, the poorhouse boy, she had never escaped from Mrs. Stott's truck-farm when she had been kidnapped and hidden there.

Dorothy on a Ranch Evelyn Raymond 1876

This would be more true of the truck-farm hives, where the bees are moved in trailers to new orchards all the time, but hardly in a setting like this, where the presence of metro bees is largely constrained by lack of shelter, habitat and forage.

Grist - the Latest from Grist 2009

It could solve a lot of their food supply problems, particularly for truck-farm stuff, I guess, tomatoes, onions, that sort of thing. "

Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

"See here, Professor," says I, "you ain't mistakin 'this studio apartment for a New Jersey truck-farm, are you!

The House of Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

It was overflowing with enthusiasm over the places he would visit and the wonderful "good luck" which had so changed the life of the truck-farm lad; "and I mean to make the whole 'tramp' a part of my education.

Dorothy's Travels Evelyn Raymond 1876