On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 08:31:42 +0000 (UTC), The Other John
wrote:

On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 08:24:15 +0100, Brian Gaff wrote:

Why is it called a farm?

'Cos they harvest sunlight!

Thinking about it Farm has been applied to a few things ,
Sewage Farm was a popular term for what is now more likely to be
called a treatment works , I suppose as you can get fertilizer ,gas
out of sewage you are harvesting it.
But what about those old now rare aerial/ antenna arrangements like
Rugby and Rampisham etc . They were often called aerial farms.
What was being harvested there?

Are there any large ones left now?
Rampisham was finally cleared last month apart from one tower to be
left as a very large bird nest support.
http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/154...dio_towers___/

Partly as a result of the Solar farm project on the site not going
ahead to return to the topic.

G.Harman