He gave the rest to his family, which has a subsistence farm outside of town.
In addition, many small subsistence farms were family owned and operated by yeoman.
I spent summers on my grandmother's small subsistence farm in Missouri, where there were three cows.
Most were used as farm hands on subsistence farms.
Most people also have small subsistence farms to supplement their irregular salaries.
The western areas were dominated by white families who operated small subsistence farms.
My "ivory tower", as you call it, is a subsistence farm in northern Vermont.
The district was farmed for over 100 years by local farmers of subsistence farms.
Around the Wupperthal area are a number of subsistence farms.
About 97 percent of production comes from some 3.2 million subsistence farms averaging 1.2 hectares.