How do you hire a good homesteading helper?
Money was tight when we first
moved to our homestead. Major projects had to get done in a low budget,
Do It Yourself fashion.
Lately we've been able to
save a little thanks to our chicken
waterer business and decided to hire some help for a few of the
bigger upcoming projects.
Turns out it's not so easy to
pay someone else to do your homesteading chores.
We've struggled in the past
to find someone that is both capable and interested enough to actually
show up. That's why we were so happy when our friend from Dungannon
arrived on time and ready to work this morning.
The old house
is well on its way to being converted to future garden space thanks to
Grant's hard work. We agreed on an hourly rate of 10 dollars but both
Anna and I were impressed enough with his hustle to throw in a bonus by
paying him 40 dollars for 2.5 hours of good labor, and added a bag of
fresh green peppers. I figure this will increase the chances of him
coming back and it really was worth it to us due to the difficulty of
this particular demolition project.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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