Whether you have three backyard hens or 300 broilers, they still need care at least twice a day. And if you want to go away on holiday, then you need to find someone to help care for your homestead. In the last 8 years of vacationing away from the farm, we’ve learned a lot about the dos and don’ts of farm sitting.
My husband, Ken, and I have been living on our 17-acre farm for 4 years, after moving from our first farm just down the road back in 2018. Now that we have the space, we raise all our own meat, plus far too many eggs, of course. We have a select few vegetables and fruits we grow, but gardening is not our passion. Animal husbandry, eating nose to tail, and letting the pigs be pigs, the cows be cows and the chickens be adorable is what
