farm-to-table

adjective

Relating to the process of food creation, from the raising of plants or livestock to the end product made available to consumers.

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Meanings

adjectivefarm-to-table (not comparable)
  1. not comparableRelating to the process of food creation, from the raising of plants or livestock to the end product made available to consumers.

    When David Page and Barbara Shinn founded Home in 1993, they applied the sensibilities of a small, laid-back, bistrolike, chef-owned farm-to-table restaurant to American home cooking.

    2020 November 10, Pete Wells, “Silver Apricot Applies a Chinese Lens to Farm-to-Table Cooking”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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    In 2022, the high school, an hour’s drive north of Kansas City, added an elective farm-to-table course run by a family and consumer science teacher, Amy Kanak, who works with an agriculture teacher, Brandi Ellis. Students were already learning to harvest and process livestock and wild game in their agriculture classes, and dissect the organs in science classes.

    2024 March 19, Katie Currid, Mark Josephson, “OK, Class, First We Shoot the Deer”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  2. not comparableHaving certification in a voluntary program to track farm products from source to point of processing or consumption.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
farm-to-fork
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farm-to-table. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/farm-to-table

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“farm-to-table.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/farm-to-table. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “farm-to-table,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/farm-to-table.

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