market garden
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- noun
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huerto comercial
- The family grows a variety of vegetables in their market garden to sell at local farmers' markets.
- market garden, known as bostans
Examples
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Keywords: Istanbul; market gardens; Turkey; urban agriculture; bostans
Academic text (2004) -
Traditional market gardens, known as bostans, were woven into the fabric of daily life and supplied the city with fresh produce (Turk Ansiklopedisi 1955).
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You say that when we have enough tomato seeds to start a market garden.
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Le Sabot is the market garden.
Blog text (23) -
For centuries, a network of market gardens throughout Istanbul provisioned the city with fresh vegetables.
Academic text (2004) -
PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): FIG. 1 - One of Istanbul's remaining traditional bostan market gardens, near the old city walls.
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On one of the days, 250 rounds of tear gas were fired into the market garden, seemingly to contaminate the vegetables that, until that moment, had fed over 100 Zadists every week.
Blog text (23) -
Until recently, soil quality has not been a critical factor limiting the extent of bostan market gardens in Istanbul because manure was used in enormous amounts (Turk Ansiklopedisi 1955).
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Christopher Airriess and David Clawson, in their study of Vietnamese market gardens in New Orleans (1994, 19), noted that the gardens tended by Vietnamese seniors represent "an opportunity to create order in a new socioeconomic environment over which the gardeners otherwise have little control."
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As in the example of New Orleans's Vietnamese market gardens (Airriess and Clawson 1994), many of Toronto's community-garden plots reflect the landscape memories of their gardeners.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
A small farm that grows vegetables to sell at local markets
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Morphology
The meaning 'a garden where produce is grown for sale' is directly and transparently composed from 'market' (a place/intent to sell) + 'garden' (a cultivated plot). This straightforward, compositional noun–noun combination follows common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will very likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Market garden comes from the simple image of a garden that grows fruit and vegetables to sell at a market. So it means a place where food is grown 'for sale' rather than for their own use.