Because slavery typically required large plantations to be economically feasible, free farmers settling small plots of the western territories would provide a bulwark against calls for the institution's expansion into those lands.
Most settlement occurs on small plots of land between mountains.
This is because there is a centuries-old tradition here of pretty much everyone – from farmers, shepherds, and olive growers to the butcher and baker – owning small plots of vines, cultivating them and making wine at home for family consumption.
Today, they live outside their forest with small plots of land to grow rice and vegetables.
We pushed against one another, trying to establish small plots of territory.
Scattered among the dwellings are several small plots of municipal farmland tended by local residents.
Only small plots of wheat were cultivated.
Most of these families farm on small plots of land and live in poverty.
Their small plots of land exhaust the nutrients in the soil.
Farmers cultivate very small plots of land, with very low agricultural productivity.
