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• Farm brewery definition

  Farm brewery means an establishment located on one or more lots in the County licensed as a limited brewery under Virginia Code § 4.1-208.

• Farm definition

  Farm means one or more parcels of land, whether such parcels are abutting or not, operated under the same management and whose primary use is agriculture.

• Farm distillery definition

  Farm distillery means an establishment located on one or more lots in the County to which a limited distiller's license is issued under Virginia Code § 4.1-206.

• Farm sales definition

  Farm sales means the sale of agricultural products, value-added products and accessory merchandise on a farm, either outdoors or within a temporary or permanent structure, where the vendor selling the products and merchandise is engaged in production agriculture on the farm on which the farm sales use is located.

• Farm stand definition

  Farm stand means the sale of local agricultural products and value-added products, either outdoors or within a temporary or permanent structure, where the vendor selling the products is engaged in production agriculture in the County, but not on the lot on which the farm stand is located.

• Farm tour definition

  Farm tour means an event organized by two or more agricultural operations or by a third party, to which the public is invited to visit two or more agricultural operations, and which may include educational programs, workshops, or demonstrations related to agriculture or silviculture.

• Farm winery definition

  Farm winery means an establishment located on one or more lots in Albemarle County licensed as a farm winery under Virginia Code § 4.1-207.

• Class A farm worker housing definition10 persons

  Class A farm worker housing means: (i) structures located on a farm that are designed and arranged to be occupied exclusively by up to ten persons employed to work on the farm on which the structures are located for seasonal agriculture work or up to ten persons including the farm workers and their immediate families; (ii) the number of such structures designed and arranged for sleeping does not exceed two; and (iii) no single structure contains all of the following: provisions for sleeping, eating, food preparation, and sanitation (bathing and/or toilets).

• Class B farm worker housing definition10 persons

  Class B farm worker housing means: (i) either structures located on a farm that are designed and arranged to be occupied exclusively by more than ten persons employed to work on the farm on which the structures are located for seasonal agriculture work or more than ten persons including the farm workers and their immediate families, or the number of such structures designed and arranged for sleeping is three or more, regardless of the number of farm workers or their family members who could sleep in such structures; and (ii) no single structure contains all of the following: provisions for sleeping, eating, food preparation, and sanitation (bathing and/or toilets).

• Farmers' market definition

  Farmers' market means the sale of agricultural products, value-added products, and accessory merchandise either outdoors or within a temporary or permanent structure by two or more vendors in the rural areas (RA) zoning district or by one or more vendors in any other zoning district where the use is allowed, where each vendor selling the products and merchandise is engaged in production agriculture in the County regardless of whether it is on or not on the lot on which the farmers' market is located.

• Hog farm definition

  Hog farm means a place where hogs are kept and raised primarily for sale.

• Home garden definition

  Home garden means an activity accessory to residential usage of a property involving the cultivation of flowers, vegetables, fruit and/or other plants primarily for the consumption or enjoyment of the residents of such property, but expressly excluding the keeping of livestock and/or poultry.

• Livestock definition

  Livestock means domestic animals normally raised on a farm such as draft horses, cows, swine, goats, sheep.

• Local agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. products definition

  Local agricultural products means agricultural products grown or produced in Albemarle County or its abutting localities.

• Poultry definition

  Poultry means domestic fowl normally raised on a farm such as chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, peafowl, guinea fowl, and pigeons.