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What is a smallholding?

What is a smallholding? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Britain) A piece of land, smaller than a farm, used for the cultivation of vegetables or the breeding of animals
  2. (US) A small plantation or land with a small number of slaves (generally 19 or less). Contrasted with middling plantation (20-49 slaves) and large plantation (50+ and owned by planters).
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Mr Chambers and his wife Wendy, who keep a herd of Hebridean sheep on their smallholding near Monkton Farleigh, are busy lambing this week.
Nor is the small scale of each individual smallholding an insuperable barrier.
Apart from running the smallholding, Danny builds model planes and flies them from the local hills.
This has made it the principal traditional family smallholding crop of choice.
I grew up in Somerset, on a seven acre smallholding where my parents and sister still live.
Keith runs an organic smallholding and keeps free range hens and these Aylesbury duck.

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