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The Bella Vista farm group comprises the homestead, collection of outbuildings and core of an historic farm including slab fencing, series of paddocks, remnant mature indigenous vegetation, cultural plantings such as the Bunya pines down the southern entry drive. The farm buildings are mostly timber slab construction, situated in a rural park ...
The farm complex is clustered near the western end of the property, with fields to the east. Buildings in the farmstead include the house, carriage house, barn, a silo, and a small pump house. The house is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, built in 1884 to a design by Kansas architect John G. Haskell. [3]
A smallholding or smallholder is a small farm operating under a small-scale agriculture model. [2] Definitions vary widely for what constitutes a smallholder or small-scale farm, including factors such as size, food production technique or technology, involvement of family in labor and economic impact. [ 3 ]
Cumberland Homesteads is a community located in Cumberland County, Tennessee, United States.Established by the New Deal-era Division of Subsistence Homesteads in 1934, the community was envisioned by federal planners as a model of cooperative living for the region's distressed farmers, coal miners, and factory workers.
A connected farm is an architectural design common in the New England region of the United States, and England and Wales in the United Kingdom. North American connected farms date back to the 17th century, while their British counterparts have also existed for several centuries.
A remnant core of a farm complex including homestead, outbuildings, garden including plantings and paddocks. Its current entry drive orientation (from the south, south-west and south-east) dates from a c. 1990 subdivision which created a new road in from the south-east, called The Retreat. The original estate access up until then was from the ...
the pond, a small dam surrounded by trees immediately to the south of the front gates, and a favourite haunt of birds; the orchard on the southern slopes below the homestead and a small vineyard, originally with its own winepress, to the north; the cottage originally used by Mrs George Weston as a school for children on the property;
A homestead is an isolated dwelling, especially a farmhouse, and adjacent outbuildings, [1] typically on a large agricultural holding such as a ranch or station. [ 2 ] In North America the word "homestead" historically referred to land claimed by a settler or squatter under the Homestead Acts (United States) or the Dominion Lands Act (Canada).