Truck Farm

Definition: Truck Farm

Truck Farm

Noun

1. A farm where vegetables are grown for market.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Truck Farm

Box factory which serves nearby truck farm area, Terry, Mississippi. Credit: Library of Congress.

Truck farm tomatoes arrive at packing depot at Terry, Mississippi, for shipment to far points in the United States. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ellen Mark, daughter of Louie Mark, Farm Security Administration rehabilitation client of West Jordan, Salt Lake County, Utah, cuts a head of lettuce as part of the family's home food supply taken from their truck farm. Credit: Library of Congress.

One of the children of M. Viera, Portuguese FSA (Farm Security Administration) client and truck gardener. Mr. Viera runs a small truck farm but in the winter tries to find some outside employment. At the moment he is working at the Newport torpedo station. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mr. Manuel Lameida, Portuguese FSA (Farm Security Administration) client in Tiverton, Rhode Island. He comes from Saint Michael Island, Portugal. Now runs a small truck farm. Shown with him is his daughter. Credit: Library of Congress.

Manuel J. Roberts, Portugese FSA (Farm Security Administration) client near Falmouth, Massachusetts. He has a ten-acre truck farm, goes scalloping in the fall and takes in tourists in the summer. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mr. John Botello, Portuguese FSA (Farm Security Administration) client cleaning turnips from his truck farm in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mrs. D'Achioli and her sister. They run a truck farm and are FSA (Farm Security Administration) clients. There are fourteen in the family, some of whom help out by working in the mills. Johnston, Rhode Island. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Finnish

kauppapuutarha (market garden). (various references)

German

gärtnerei (gardening, horticulture, market garden, market-garden, nursery). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

トラス橋 (track, tracking, tracking station, trackman, truck, truck terminal, trucking, truss bridge). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

トラックファー� . (various references)

Pig Latin

ucktray armfay

Russian 

огородное хозяйство. (various references)

Swedish

handelsträdgård (market garden). (various references)

Turkish

sebze bahçesi (kaleyard, kitchen garden, truck garden), bostan (kaleyard, market garden, truck garden). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: fractur, fraktur.

-4 letters: amuck, craft, crura, kraft, kraut, kurta, murra, track, truck.

-5 letters: arum, cark, carr, cart, cram, curf, curr, curt, fact, farm, fart, frat, fuck, kart, mack, marc, mark, mart, maut, muck, mura, murk, murr, rack, raft, ruck, tack, tram, tuck, tufa, turf, turk.