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means The practice of cultivating soil and raising crops or livestock to produce food and other goods on a sustained basis.

from From Middle English 'ferme' meaning a fixed yearly rent or lease, borrowed from Old French 'ferme,' ultimately rooted in Latin 'firmare' ('to make firm, fix') and 'firmus' ('firm, fixed'). A farm was originally not land itself but a fixed-rent contract for working land — the word drifted from the deal to the dirt. 'Farming' as the agricultural activity only emerged once 'farm' settled into meaning the leased land itself, a sense shift that solidified over centuries of English usage.