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market garden

Chiefly Brit an establishment where fruit and vegetables are grown for sale
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Johnson is an organic market gardener, a family farm legislative advocate for several churches in Kansas, and a member of the Land Institute's Prairie Writers Circle in Salina, Kan.]
"I'll get a market gardener telling me I've increased his production by 400 or 500 per cent."
Former market gardener John Temple, died at the age of 98 in a retirement home last week.
She was a daughter of market gardener William Henry Barnett and remembers her father used horses and carts to sell produce around the town.
In the middle of one busy sales day, a market gardener approached with a basket of small and ill-formed garlic that she wanted us to sell.
Stewart worked as a market gardener, then backstage at Dundee's Whitehall Theatre and Caird Hall.
(11.) The trades listed were as follows: market gardener, glover, tailors (10), shearers (2), barbers (3), oil vendors (2), wine vendors (2), merchants (4), shoemakers (8), sandal maker, tanners (2), shopkeeper, lace makers (2), thread makers (2), carpenter, and butcher.
Or poor Luis Zarzuela, the star of Day-Glo, 1999, an Andalusian market gardener who, in a bid to make a fast buck, creates a virtual-reality theme park only to discover that his beloved wife is committing adultery-with a virtual version of his younger self.
After publishing a popular book on the topic, The Market Gardener: A Successful Grower's Handbook for Small-Scale Organic Farming, Fortier's latest educational effort comes in the form of a new film called The Market Gardener's Toolkit.
A keen market gardener, retirement will allow him to spend more time on the organically certified smallholding he runs with his wife Ann at their home near Hexham, Northumberland.
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