Types of farm

Farms take many forms and grow a huge variety of produce

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What is a farm?

Farms take many forms.

Huge cereal farms where many thousand of acres of wheat billow in a summer breeze,
Tiny market gardens where specialist herbs are grown as a part time enterprise.
Intensive poultry units where tens of thousand of birds a day are produced from a remarkably small area.
Mile upon mile of upland and fell where a handful of sheep graze an area larger than many towns and yet barely earn enough to keep a single family fed and clothed.
Mushrooms come from dark sheds and cellars.
Strange structures on the seabed nurture mussels and oysters.
Apples come from trees but so does mistletoe and paper and chewing gum.

Even your garden if you have one is a farm of a sort, maybe you are a farmer too!

Almost everything we eat and nearly all our clothes come from farms.

What do we eat that doesn't come from a farm?
A few fish, some other seafoods including crabs, whelks, lavabread and carrigheen. If you are lucky enough to have them growing nearby you may pick a few wild blackberries or mushrooms. A very few people might shoot a wild duck or gather wild strawberries and samphire.

When did you last eat something that didn't come from a farm?