Areas of land adjacent to a farm building where farm work, storage, and animal handling take place; the working areas of farms.
From 'farm' + 'yard,' a compound noun. Farmyards have existed as distinct functional spaces since medieval times, but the term crystallized in English agricultural terminology during the industrial farming era.
Farmyards were once sensory-rich spaces—sounds of animals, smells of manure and hay, dust clouds, and constant activity. Photographs and diaries reveal these were intense, often muddy, smelly work environments that industrial agriculture has largely mechanized and sanitized.
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