lifestyle block

English

lifestyle block (plural lifestyle blocks)

(New Zealand) A small farm that is not the resident owner's primary source of income, or large residence that includes some agricultural features.
- 2009 January 3, “Farming Diary for March”, in LSB:
  Keep checking your home and farm security – thieves never sleep and rustling small mobs of stock on lifestyle blocks is on the rise.
- 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 57:
  His parents had a lifestyle block. They called it their life sentence.