farmsteading

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   chiefly British or Scottish: a farmstead, especially the farmhouse and its surrounding farm buildings considered as a group

   Several stone barns formed a compact farmsteading beside the fields.

A compound of farm + steading. Steading is a Scottish and northern English noun for the site and buildings of a farm, from stead, 'place.' Farmsteading is now chiefly historical or regional.

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