Ask HN: Anyone coding from a farm or homestead?

4 points by igolden 7 years ago | 7 comments

PaulHoule 7 years ago |

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.

AnimalMuppet 7 years ago |

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.

cruella_deville 7 years ago |

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

ceuric01 7 years ago | |

I live on small farm in western Virginia and would like to learn a little more about the kind of automation you are using on your farm. I would like to run some temperature and electric fence line monitors eventually.

noefingway 7 years ago |

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

AnimalMuppet 7 years ago | |

May I ask where you are?

And, do you program remotely, or is there work within commuting distance?

noefingway 7 years ago | | |

Thurmont MD - I work with a small company in Shepherdstown, WV. It's about a 50 min drive, no traffic, country roads. I go in once a week, rest of the time is at home (farm). I've been fortunate the last 10 years that I've been able to find work close by. Before that it was commuting up and down 270, which has some of the worst traffic in the country.