A garden is for your family, whether to just give some fresh or enough to store for the winter. A farm grows plants, and animals, to sell for products. Milk, produce, plants, etc.

Even a 5 acre plot can be a farm, just limited.

My opinion, lol.

Cheri

I agree with Cheri for the most part. Farms grow food to sell. I would also think that a garden that produces a certain percentage (how about 40%?) of the total food intake per year for the individuals growing it should be considered a farm as well.

I have a quarter-acre vegetable farm and sell at the farmers' market. The only distinction, really, is whether you sell the vegetables or not. I used to sell vegetables from my garden in the city and rented other people's gardens - that was a farm as well.