Ask HN: Anyone coding from a farm or homestead?

  • I do.

    My wife teaches kids to ride horses. Sometimes I fix fences, plow the driveway, gather firewood, things like that.

    Maybe 1/3 the time I have worked in town, maybe 1/3 the time I have had a remote job, maybe the other 1/3 I was underemployed.

  • I'd love to. That is, I'd love to live there, but not to have to run a farm or a homestead. I don't have time to both code and plow the fields or raise the chickens or whatever. I could see renting the fields to someone else, but not actually being the farmer on that farm.

  • alaska farm here keeping bees and producing hydroponic plant products. All of my automation is home brew.

  • yes - raising grains for distillers and millers, while coding too. Gets hectic at planting and harvest time!