Real tools from a real homestead.
We're the Laytons, a working family on 2.6 acres around a 1910 farmhouse. We make the planners, checklists and build plans we use on our own place, and we share them here, along with what worked and what didn't.
DIY build plans · $17 each
Plans for things we built ourselves, with real photos of the finished builds: a cedar compost bin and a 6×6 kids' tree fort.
Printable planners · $5.99 each
Canning, chickens, chores, pantry and farm money. Print-at-home pages you can fill in at the coop or the kitchen table.
Harvest & Pantry Inventory
Know exactly what you grew, canned and still have on the shelf
$5.99
The Homestead Essentials Bundle
All five printables in one download, $29.95 if bought separately.
Homestead Essentials Bundle: $19.99
See the bundleFree: Find Your Growing Zone
A printable US growing zone map with a frost-date table, so you know roughly when to plant and when to expect the first frost. Tell us where to send it.
About us, in short
We keep 27 chickens, a garden and a pantry we're trying to fill a little more every year, and our goal is to produce at least 75% of our own food. We're not there yet, and we'll tell you how it's going, failures included.
About our family