- Smaller farms of 100-200 acres
- Farmed by families (with some indentured servants)
- Grew a wide variety of crops for subsistence and cash: wheat, corn, barley, oats, rye, buckwheat, flax, hemp, tobacco
- Also raised livestock, especially cattle and pigs
Plantation Farming
- Large farms of 10,000-15,000 acres
- Farmed by enslaved people
- Grew a single cash crop, usually tobacco or cotton
- Little subsistence farming