Ask HN: Anyone coding from a farm or homestead?

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Post by igolden » Mon, Dec 31, 2018, 5:49 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Anyone coding from a farm or homestead?

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Post by AnimalMuppet » Mon, Dec 31, 2018, 6:47 PM UTC

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.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone coding from a farm or homestead?

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Post by noefingway » Mon, Dec 31, 2018, 7:10 PM UTC

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

Re: Ask HN: Anyone coding from a farm or homestead?

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Post by AnimalMuppet » Mon, Dec 31, 2018, 7:33 PM UTC

noefingway wrote: post #3

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

May I ask where you are?

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

Re: Ask HN: Anyone coding from a farm or homestead?

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Post by PaulHoule » Mon, Dec 31, 2018, 7:42 PM UTC

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.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone coding from a farm or homestead?

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Post by cruella_deville » Mon, Dec 31, 2018, 8:06 PM UTC

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

Re: Ask HN: Anyone coding from a farm or homestead?

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Post by noefingway » Mon, Dec 31, 2018, 8:31 PM UTC

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #4

noefingway wrote: post #3

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

May I ask where you are? And, do you program remotely, or is there work within commuting distance?

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.

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Post by ceuric01 » Sat, Jan 12, 2019, 2:56 PM UTC

cruella_deville wrote: post #6

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

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.