Originally Posted by Mom2Two:
I spend quite a lot of time tending my vegie gardens, and my daycare kids eat fresh vegies and fruit from it most of the year, and I also dehydrate vegies and use some of them for daycare in the Winter, for example, I can put dehydrated vegies in smoothies.
Many daycare parents love that I do this and it is a selling point.
Can I count this time in t/s% or part of it? I would still do this even if I didn't run a daycare, but the reality is that they do eat a significant percentage of what I grow.
The general rule is this: you can only count time spent in your home as a business activity if you wouldn't be doing it if you weren't in business. I assume that your family eats some of the vegetables you grow, therefore don't count all of the time spent in the garden. You can count time preparing food served to the daycare children.