farm help for cottage living

@Natelinchen I absolutely agree that it would be amazing if you could hire a farm hand! What a great idea, as a farm is a handful, especially if it's big! 

Great points, @simsplayer818, that there are 'gardening helper' options... and I would like to add a few more options...

• Patchy. Patchy comes with 'Seasons'. I've even had him come in the house and help if the gardening is done. I've had a Patchy change a diaper, clear dishes, paint a painting I sold on an empty easel... (and I had one that could swim in the ocean!).
• Butlers. Butlers will help with many things, including gardening. (I doubt they would help with any farm animals, though. They do repair things, though, and socialize with pets... though I don't know if they do with farm animals. I never had on on a farm.)
• Add one or two Sims to the household that are intended to be farm hands. You could even build them a separate building to stay in on the lot, or make a basement or attic apartment with an outside entrance to play into them being mostly outside the household (though they would technically be in the household). You could involve them as much or little as you want in the household space and socializing by locking doors, etc. However you want to play it. Anyway, you would need to stay on the lot, though, to tell them what tasks to do. You could give them traits that lean in the direction of their tasks, cloth them in 'farm hand' attire, and lean into it as much as you want.
• Edit: I forgot about the bird tree that you can add from Country Living. It you becomes friends with the birds in it you can ask them for gardening help and they will eat bugs in the garden, and they can sing to oversized crops to help them grow.
• Also, if you add a bee hive the area will get a small fertilizer bonus (and you get honey).

Anyway, that's just a bit of additional food for thought. I have added my 'Me Too' and 'XP' to this thread, though, as I think it would be a great option to hire a farm hand! 🙌