Citations:haycation

Noun: "a vacation stay on a farm, in which guests often help out with daily farm tasks"

 * 2008 — Leslie Harlib, "Take a haycation on a North Bay farm", Marin Independent Journal, 30 July 2008:
 * Call them haycations: The chance to spend a night or two on a working farm or ranch and enjoy the comforts of a country inn - or a complete guest home on the property — while you learn about your hosts' approach to agriculture.
 * 2009 — Kim Severson, "$300 a Night? Yes, but Haying’s Free", The New York Times, 25 August 2009:
 * In a world where small farmers need to diversify to keep their fields afloat and city dwellers are more desperate than ever to learn where their food comes from, a "haycation" for about the price of a nice hotel room in Manhattan didn’t seem like such a far-fetched idea.
 * 2009 — "Travel gurus predict trends for 2010", USA Today, 30 December 2009:
 * You've heard of staycations; what do you think of haycations? These are interactive farm stays where city-dwellers gather their own eggs, make cheese and even learn to butcher an animal.
 * 2010 — Lilly Murphy, "Dan Morgan: He’s Come A Long Way To Be Green", The Lakewood Observer, 24 March 2010:
 * The Morgans rent it out to "city folk" for "haycations", complete with Nubian and Alpine goats, tended by their Amish friends.
 * 2010 — Lori Rackl, "Take a family 'haycation' on an Illinois farm", Chicago Sun-Times, 10 July 2010:
 * It couldn't have been more different than modern-day city life - and that's the point of Feather Down Farm Days, a European-based company whose "haycations" are taking root in the United States.
 * 2010 — Mike Slizewski, "How you spent your summer ’cation", Siskiyou Dail News, 20 August 2010:
 * And maybe you can do a little baling while you’re there ... you know, take yourself a little haycation.
 * 2011 — John Seelmeyer, "‘Haycations’ provide boost in revenue for ranches, farms in state", Northern Nevada Business Weekly, 11 April 2011:
 * For a growing number of farms and ranches in Nevada and nationwide, visits by rural vacationers — folks taking haycations, in other words — are important part of their annual revenues.
 * 2011 — Kellie B. Gormly, "Getaway 'haycations' turn families into farmhands", Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 25 April 2011:
 * The haycations here offer mostly unstructured time for guests to escape and relax, although they help with some farm chores -- like pumping water, feeding the goats and collecting chicken eggs -- after a hearty, home-grown breakfast with Weatherbury chicken eggs, and grains and vegetables from the fields.