Why Farmers and Homesteaders Can (and should) Vacation

Reader Contribution by Shelby Devore-Farminence
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If you run a farm or a homestead, then you understand how much work goes into running it every day. Many of us feel blessed to wake up each day and tend to our gardens and livestock. But we also understand the fatigue that comes with hard work day in and day out. Many farmers and homesteaders feel like they can’t vacation or leave their farms. I want to explain how we manage to run our small farm, vacation 3-4 times a year and keep our sanity!

Plan Ahead

This may sound obvious, but planning well ahead of time will make sure that your vacation gets off on the right foot. It’s not a vacation if you’re worrying about your farm and what’s going on the whole time that you’re gone.

Do you have plans for a big project? Maybe you want to finally put those shelves in the tool shed or strip out the stalls. Plan to complete this project before you leave. It’s never a good idea to leave for vacation when you’re in the middle of a project. I’ll tell you from experience, you’ll spend your entire vacation thinking about the fact that you should have finished that project before you left.

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