1A plot of cultivated land used for growing vegetables, grains, or fruit, without flooding it as with a rice paddy.
祖母は毎朝、畑で野菜の世話をしている。
My grandmother tends to the vegetables in the field every morning.
実家には広いさつまいも畑がある。
My parents' house has a large sweet potato field.
週末は家族で畑仕事を手伝う。
On weekends, I help my family with the farm work in the field.
台風で畑の作物がだめになってしまった。
The typhoon ruined the crops in the field.
2Used as a suffix (often pronounced ばたけ) to indicate the professional field a person has long worked in, as in 営業畑 (career in sales).
彼は入社以来ずっと営業畑を歩んできた。
He has worked in sales ever since joining the company.
父は技術畑の出身で、機械に詳しい。
My father comes from a technical background, so he knows a lot about machinery.
同じ会社でも畑が違うと話が合わないこともある。
Even within the same company, people from different fields don't always see eye to eye.
3An old-fashioned, colloquial way of referring to the mother's womb, or to a person's birthplace and upbringing.
彼の頑固さは、育った畑のせいかもしれない。
His stubbornness might come from the soil (place) he was raised in.