Homestead

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Size Your Garden

Tell us how many you are feeding and we will suggest what to plant and how much room it takes.

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Homestead Tools

Free tools to plan, track and steward your homestead: animals, garden, pantry and finances in one place.

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Barn & Garden Planner

Sketch beds, pens and pastures on a grid and check each pen against the space guide.

Open the Planner →

Livestock

Every tracker is free for every registered member. Your records are private to you, and you can download them any time.

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Chores & Reminders

Today’s list: chores for every animal and the garden, plus kiddings, hatches and planting dates from your trackers.

Open Today's Chores →

Garden & Pantry

Planting calendar from your frost dates, plantings, harvests, seeds, canning and pantry.

Open the Garden →

Farm Ledger

Every expense and sale across the whole homestead, by month, animal and category.

Open the Farm Ledger →

Land and Garden

Orchard and Perennials

Fruit and nut trees, berries and vines: first-crop years, care log, harvests and seasonal jobs.

Open the Orchard →

Pasture Rotation

Who is grazing where, days rested, ready-to-graze reminders and a grazing-days calculator.

Open My Paddocks →

Compost

Piles and bins, greens and browns, turning and temperature, and finished compost spread on your beds.

Open My Compost →

Records and Planning

Farm Stand and Customers

Products and prices, customers, orders paid at pickup, selling rules for your state, and your own public farm stand.

Open My Farm Stand →

Feed, Supplies and Freezer

Days of feed and hay left, reminders before you run out, and an eat-first freezer list.

Open Inventory →

Barn and Garden Planner

Lay out garden beds, barns and pens, or your whole property on a grid.

Open the Planner →

Tools, Fuel and 4-H

Equipment and Maintenance

Tractors, mowers, saws and trucks: service jobs by the calendar and by hours or miles.

See What’s Due →

Firewood and Woodlot

Piles in cords, seasoning dates by species, a burn log and your winter need.

Open My Woodshed →

Kids and 4-H Records

Project costs and income, weigh-ins, hours, show results and a printable record book for each child.

Open Kids' Projects →

Plan and Share the Work

Projects and Tasks

Break big jobs into tasks with due dates, give each one to someone in your household, and watch the progress bar fill.

Open My Tasks →

Your Calendar

Tasks, repeating chores and every tracker’s reminders on one calendar, by month or week.

Open the Calendar →

Household and Helpers

Invite family and helpers to work in your records as a helper, chore hand or viewer.

Share My Homestead →

Learn How

Animal How-To Guides

Chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese, quail, rabbits, goats, sheep, pigs, cattle and bees: getting started, housing, feeding, care and health.

Read the Guides →

Garden and Land Guides

The vegetable garden, orchard, pasture and compost, with the key numbers and links to the tools that keep your records.

Growing a Garden →

Homestead School

Free Homestead Living courses with your progress, seasonal challenges and live Q&A sessions.

Start a Course →

Free homestead calculators

Rabbit kindling date

    Based on a 31-day gestation (most does kindle on days 30–32).

    Egg hatch date

      Temperature and humidity can shift hatch by a day or so either way.

      Cost per dozen eggs

        Rabbit meat yield

          Estimate only, using a typical 55–60% dressing percentage for fryers.

          More calculators: feed, hay, meat, eggs, milk, canning and curing →

          Faithful Stewardship Starts with Knowing What You Have

          Every tool here is free for registered members. Your records are private to you, and you can download them as a spreadsheet at any time. Start with one flock, one bed or one goat, and grow from there.

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