When they say that, they might mean they live on a house on acreage and a stablehand feeds and maintains the horses and such. Such arrangements are actually pre

When they say that, they might mean they live on a house on acreage and a stablehand feeds and maintains the horses and such. Such arrangements are actually pretty common among the "farmer gentry" class. I've even seen this expanded to the farm becoming a full on small business with sales done at the farmers market, again though the owners are not the ones digging in the dirt or selling product, they hire hands.