truck farm

American  

noun

1. a farm or piece of land for the growing of vegetables and fruit for sale, especially to local or nearby markets.

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truck farm British  

noun

1. a market garden

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Other Word Forms

• truck farmer noun
• truck farming noun

Etymology

Origin of truck farm

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70

Example Sentences

Mission Valley was all truck farms in those days.

From Los Angeles Times

In the store we sold fresh produce my cousins brought in from their truck farm, and also dry goods and a little ammunition.

From Literature

When he was 9, the family moved to Garden City, where they lived in a Sears and Roebuck house on the west end of town and transformed their city block into a truck farm.

From Washington Times

Do you still go there to buy fresh produce from a truck farm, or bread like they used to make in the old country?

From Seattle Times

It’s a New Yorker’s argument—no Jersey truck farms without Manhattan diners—but it’s not one that has won general assent among historians of early civilizations.

From The New Yorker