In the British Isles, and sometimes elsewhere, a home farm (sometimes known as a manor farm) is a part of a large
country estate
An estate is a large parcel of land under single ownership, which would historically generate income for its owner.
British context
In the UK, historically an estate comprises the houses, outbuildings, supporting farmland, and woods that s ...
that is farmed by the landowner or an employed farm manager (often as a source of food and horse-keeping for the estate household), rather than being rented out to
tenant farmer
A tenant farmer is a person (farmer or farmworker) who resides on land owned by a landlord. Tenant farming is an agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital and management, ...
s like most of the estate. Typically it would be near the landowner's house. The name may continue in use when the place is no longer a home farm.
Types of farms
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Agriculture in the United Kingdom