Growing crops and, where appropriate, keeping animals so as to provide food (cereals, pulses, vegetable and fruits), shelter materials, and possibly other products (fibres, medicinals) for family use.
Supplementing solar energy with energy from human labor and draft animals to produce enough food to feed oneself and family members; in good years there may be enough food left over to sell or put aside for hard times. Compare industrialized agriculture.
farming whose purpose is only to raise enough food to feed the family. There is little surplus to sell on the market. This is contrasted with COMMERCIAL FARMING whose purpose is only to raise crops to sell for profit to the landowner.