The barn notebook
4/12 — 9 eggs. Marigold off feed, watch her.
1–50 animals · 5–50 trees · 1–100 acres
One record for the whole place.
Livestock, orchard, production, and preserving — kept together, logged at the gate instead of at the desk, and still there next season when you need to remember what actually happened.
No spam. One note when the beta opens.
iOS and Android apps in development · web at launch
Where it lives now
Right now the record is in six places, and none of them agree.
Every homestead already keeps records. The trouble is that they're kept six different ways, by whoever was closest, and no two of them cover the same ground.
The spreadsheet
Harvest totals, 2023
The camera roll
A photo of a tree tag, somewhere between 4,000 photos of the dog.
Texts with the vet
"5cc, twice a day" — or was that the other goat, last spring?
The whiteboard
Breeding dates, due dates, who's bred to whom
Memory
How many jars of tomatoes are left, and will they last to June.
What it takes instead
One record, written once, in the moment, on the phone already in your pocket — and readable by everyone who works the place.
What the record holds
Everything that happens on a small farm, in one place.
Daily
Livestock
Animals and their lineage, breeding events with due dates calculated per species, treatments with the withdrawal date attached, and the daily count of eggs, milk, and fiber.
Per tree
Orchard
Every tree from planting through harvest — pruning, pest treatments, and grafts, with yields lined up year over year so you can see which tree is actually earning its water.
Per batch
Preserving
Canning, freezing, and dehydrating batches, each one traced back to the harvest it came from and forward to the jar you opened in January.
Season to season
The ledger
Expenses by category, slaughter weights, cuts and which freezer they're in, and how many months of supply you have left before you're buying it again.
Shot 02
Hands lifting a hot jar from the canner onto a towel. Steam visible. Labeled jars already cooling in the frame. Warm kitchen light, late afternoon.
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The part nobody else does
The chain holds, from the tree to the jar you open.
Most tools stop at the harvest. HomesteadTrack keeps the link: this batch of sauce came from that tree, in that week, and there are eleven jars left. Enough to say with confidence whether you put up enough this year.
Also tracked: grafting programs — scion, rootstock, method, and whether the graft actually took, with success rates by method and variety over time.
Shot 03
A phone held in a working hand at the pasture gate — dirt under the nails, goats or hens soft-focus behind. Shot from the user's eye line, not staged flat.
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Where the work happens
Built for hands that are already full.
Chores don't happen at a desk, so logging shouldn't either. Quick entry is two taps from opening the app, and it works with no signal at all — the back pasture logs fine and syncs when you're back in range.
iOS and Android apps are in development. The web app works on any phone at launch, installs to your home screen, and runs offline.
Early access
Get in before the apps ship.
We're opening HomesteadTrack to a small group of working homesteads first, so the thing we ship is shaped by real chores rather than a whiteboard. Tell us where to reach you.
We'll email once when the beta opens. Nothing else.