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Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon (9 P) Pages in category "Farms in Oregon" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
A hobby farm (also called a lifestyle block, acreage living, or rural residential) is a smallholding or small farm that is maintained without expectation of being a primary source of income. Some are held simply to bring homeowners closer to nature, to provide recreational land for horses, or as working farms for secondary income.
Manning, born in 1836, had previously lived in Kansas, Ohio, Colorado, and Eastern Oregon before settling in Washington County. [5] On Elizabeth's 320-acre (1.3 km 2) farm, the two raised her children from the prior marriage and grew various crops. [2] They built a new farmhouse on the property between 1876 and 1883. [5]
Hobby Farms is a bimonthly magazine, devoted to the life of hobby farmers, homesteaders and small producers. Its editorial offices are based in Lexington, Kentucky . Hobby Farms magazine's tagline is "Rural Living for Pleasure and Profit".
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[12] [13] The company was still based in Portland in mid-2011, [6] [8] [14] but it relocated its headquarters in fall 2011 [15] to the Tanasbourne area of Hillsboro, Oregon, on the west side of the Portland metropolitan area. [16] It subsequently moved its headquarters one mile to west, no longer in the Tanasbourne area but still in Hillsboro.
Hobby farms are commonly around 2 hectares (4.9 acres) but may be much larger depending on land prices. Other farms may primarily exist for research or education, such as an ant farm, and since farming is synonymous with mass production, the word "farm" may be used to describe wind power generation or puppy farm.
The Multnomah County Poor Farm is a former poor farm located in Troutdale, Oregon, United States.Established in 1911, the building and its surrounding grounds operated as a poor farm housing the ill and indigent populations in the Portland metropolitan area at the beginning of the twentieth century, after the closure of a poor farm in the city's West Hills.