From Garden to Table
Homesteading for beginners — research-driven guides for growing
food, preserving the harvest, keeping backyard chickens, and
cooking from scratch.
The Free Homestead Starter Guide
A 10-skill PDF for new homesteaders. No fluff, no filler — just the foundational skills worth learning first.
Guides & Printables
The same research-first approach as the blog, in ebooks and printable kits you can put to work today.
The Beginner’s Canning eBook
12 tested recipes and the safety rules, step by step.
Backyard Chickens Starter Guide
Your whole first year with hens, from coop to first egg.
The Complete Garden Planner
30 printable pages to plan beds, spacing, and harvests.
Jar Sterilizing Quick Kit
Printable flowchart, altitude chart, jar labels, and batch log.
Fermenting Vegetables Quick Kit
Salt ratios by weight, safety checks, labels, and logs.
A note from the editor
In Homestead is a field guide for homesteading for beginners —
written for people who are earlier in this journey than they’d
like to be.
It’s not a “look at my farm” blog. It’s a field guide — carefully
researched, honestly written, and grounded in established sources
like the USDA, NCHFP, and experienced homesteaders. When something
is tested, it’s labeled. When it’s traditional, it’s labeled.
When the sources disagree, both sides get shown.
If that’s the kind of homesteading blog you’ve been looking for,
you’re in the right place.