What is "farmlands"

Usage examples of "farmlands".

She sat stiff and upright, using her riding skills to go with the horse as he made his way along the endless dusty tracks weaving through the Farmlands, which stretched for miles on the other side of the river.

Sure enough, in the distance along the dusty road that wound through the Farmlands, Septimus saw a horseman spurring his horse into the night.

However, the situation of the asylum itself, located right in the middle of farmlands, makes an air search ridiculously easy.

One wall, of course, was the computer console and storage banks, then the window that looked out onto the big yard of the Complex, the three-foot-square relief model of the Fenn Farmlands on its stand.

Once in a while they'll go as far as the big river bend, or down to the nearest farmlands, but that doesn't do any good.

River traffic is the only feasible way to move agricultural goods from the farmlands to the city.

I'd hoped you could go south, to the farmlands, where things are really bad, but Hugo has negotiated a steady supply of grain and he says it's none of our business.

It is a long journey to the farmlands in the south, but once there, you could probably avoid recapture.

Then there's just over three klicks of cleared hills, farmlands mostly, and Rochemont Manor.

Each incursion into the swamp brings a retaliatory strike on the villages and farmlands beyond.

The invasion of the North will serve another purpose: to take the fight into fertile farmlands where Lee might feed his increasingly desperate army.

Most came from the rich farmlands of the Shenandoah, and they learned how to march, to fight, to become a small piece of this great army, under the grim command of a strange professor from VMI.

Hunter carried a barbaric viciousness into the fight, and now into the farmlands of the valley.

Early's forces, most of the Second Corps, were still intact, the fertile farmlands of the valley still under control.

Why did food production develop first in these seemingly rather marginal lands, and only later in today's most fertile farmlands and pastures?