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cooperative farm

noun

  1. a farm that is run in cooperation with others in the purchasing and using of machinery, stock, etc, and in the marketing of produce through its own institutions ( farmers' cooperatives )
  2. a farm that is owned by a cooperative society
  3. a farm run on a communal basis, such as a kibbutz
  4. another name for collective farm
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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A kibbutz, for those who don’t know, it’s a small cooperative farm.

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He married a local woman, Shirley Miller, and built a robust voting-rights effort and, later, a sprawling cooperative farm.

The money they received allowed them to buy a former plantation, which they converted into a new cooperative farm.

The San Xavier Cooperative Farm is run by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation in the Tucson area.

Since the early 1970s, a group of Nation members have run the San Xavier Cooperative Farm and grown “traditional desert cultivars” in accordance with their ancestral values — particularly respect for land, water and plants.

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