From Garden to Table

Homesteading for beginners — research-driven guides for growing
food, preserving the harvest, keeping backyard chickens, and
cooking from scratch.

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The Free Garden Starter Pack

Five printable pages to plan, plant and track your first season. No fluff, no filler — just the sheets you will actually use.

  • A planning worksheet — crop, variety, spacing and plant count
  • A planting calendar — built around your last frost date
  • A harvest log — so you know what to grow more of next year

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Guides & Printables

The same research-first approach as the blog, in ebooks and printable kits you can put to work today.

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The Beginner’s Canning eBook

12 tested recipes and the safety rules, step by step.

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Backyard Chickens Starter Guide

Your whole first year with hens, from coop to first egg.

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The Complete Garden Planner

30 printable pages to plan beds, spacing, and harvests.

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Jar Sterilizing Quick Kit

Printable flowchart, altitude chart, jar labels, and batch log.

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Fermenting Vegetables Quick Kit

Salt ratios by weight, safety checks, labels, and logs.

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The editor of In Homestead in his garden, holding a basket of fresh vegetables beside the raised beds and chicken coop

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.