How to Use farmstead in a Sentence

farmstead

noun
  • Buildings are damaged at a farmstead on the northwest edge of the city.
    Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Garip spends most of her time out of her pen and has never tried to run away from Mirzan's farmstead.
    Ergin Yildiz and Robert Badendieck, Star Tribune, 8 Feb. 2021
  • The couple tied the knot at the La Granja farmstead resort on the Northern side of the Balearic island.
    Nasha Smith, Peoplemag, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The Schwabs had given tours of the farmstead since it was restored with private funds in the early 1990s.
    Washington Post, 19 May 2017
  • The farmstead is part of the 1,388-acre Greene Valley Forest Preserve.
    Michelle Mullins, Naperville Sun, 7 June 2019
  • At the same time, Norway had been stricken by the plague, so many farmsteads there were left abandoned.
    Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Outside of town, groves of oak and cottonwood mark where farmsteads used to be.
    Dan Zak, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2020
  • The medieval theater started out as a farmstead that sold beer.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2020
  • This spread is sourced from their collection of farmstead cheeses made in and around Abruzzo, Italy.
    Tia Keenan, Bon Appetit, 24 Apr. 2018
  • This lovingly restored farmstead in Puglia is the perfect blend of old and new.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Visit a farmstead in Eagan, settled in the 1870s by the Holz family.
    Star Tribune, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Shannon raises grass-feed lamb and beef and chickens for organic eggs, all of which would be sold at the new farmstead.
    Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Better yet, spend the night at a local inn, which is likely snuggled up to a babbling brook or farmstead.
    Kaitlyn Wylde, Vogue, 3 Jan. 2022
  • His ancestors are buried at the nearby Pioneer Cemetery, but Cook jokes he’d rather be buried at the foot of the flagpole on the farmstead.
    Cara Nixon, oregonlive, 17 July 2023
  • This tornado continued to do tree, barn and home damage to farmsteads to the northeast.
    Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2023
  • On a recent Tuesday evening, Jerry Starner, 61, pointed at the green rows of corn stalks to the north of his farmstead, dappled with pink rays from the setting sun.
    Jeff Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2023
  • Especially when one is staying at a farmstead dairy and loaded down with the best cheese the Northeast has to offer?
    Gordon Edgar, Smithsonian, 30 May 2018
  • The farmstead's two buildings connected by a passage were built with split stone to a height of just over five feet and feature doorways facing the sea.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2021
  • At the Spruce Street Farmers Market, there are a variety of vendors with fresh produce and more farmstead goods!
    Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 24 June 2022
  • Those who make the trip can walk the farmstead grounds and take photos that can be posted on social media using the hashtag #TheGreeneBarn.
    chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The 500-acre Idyll Farms farmstead goat creamery is located in Northport.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 4 Jan. 2024
  • After buying an Ohio farmstead, Harper gave birth to a daughter, Mary.
    Ian Zack, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Cook’s great-grandfather bought 130 acres from Shipley, settling on a farmstead that was home to cattle, sheep and hogs, and the grain, wheat and alfalfa that fed them.
    Cara Nixon, oregonlive, 17 July 2023
  • Gordon and Wendy Parsons operate the Music Mill inside the barn of a 1790s farmstead near the village crossroads.
    David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Hike with goats, collect eggs, visit the farm animals, and explore the trails that crisscross this nearly 100-acre farmstead.
    Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2022
  • Families can tour the grounds, feed the chickens and check out the educational displays around the farmstead such as the working blacksmith shop.
    Shannon Sutlief, Dallas News, 26 Nov. 2020
  • Frying Pan Farm Park, which resembles if nothing else, a working farmstead with a bright red barn and cornfields.
    Charlie Weber, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2020
  • By 4,000 years ago, the valley was full of sprawling Bronze Age farmsteads rather than crowded, fortified villages.
    Megan Gannon, National Geographic, 10 Oct. 2019
  • And Portland Creamery offered its gooey Caramel Syrup, made of farmstead goat cheese whey with cinnamon and vanilla.
    Jeastman, oregonlive, 14 Mar. 2023
  • On that night at the Hinterkaifeck farmstead, the farmer, his wife, their widowed daughter, two grandchildren aged 7 and 2, and the family maid, all were killed with a mattock, or pickaxe.
    Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 28 Jan. 2018

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