From farm +‎ stead, modelled after homestead.

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farmstead (plural farmsteads)

1. The main building of a farm.
2. A farm, including its buildings.
   • 1974, Tunji Oyelana, “Which Way Africa”:

     Young people no longer work on the farmstead
     They go to school and to the big town instead

• farmsteading

• “farmstead”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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