About
Homesteading advice, sorted by someone who has to use it too.
SteadScape is a curated guide to the practical side of homesteading: gardens that feed a household, backyard poultry and small livestock, preserving the harvest, building and fixing things, and living with less grid. It is run by its founder, Justin, from a working homestead, and it exists because the good information is scattered across hundreds of blogs and the bad information is everywhere.
How resources get here
We follow a shortlist of homesteading writers whose work has held up over time. New articles from those sources are reviewed for fit: home-scale, actionable, and still true next year. Anything that is news, marketing, a product roundup, or a teaser is turned away. What passes gets a plain-language summary, a topic, a difficulty level, and a set of key takeaways that add the zone, season, cost, and first-step context a reader needs to act on it.
Part of that review is automated. Software reads each candidate, scores it against our standards, drafts the summary and takeaways, and holds the result for a day before it goes live. During that window a person looks over the queue and can pull anything that does not belong. Every resource page links to the original article and names its source, because the writers who did the work deserve the visit.
The tools around it
- The planner turns your ZIP code into a hardiness zone and frost dates, then builds a garden and flock plan around them. Plan and track
- SteadSwap is a place to trade eggs, produce, seedlings, and tools with homesteaders near you. Browse listings
- SteadHub is the community: ask a question, share what worked, learn from people a season ahead of you. Join the conversation
A note on advice
Homesteading is local. Our takeaways lean conservative and point to zones and seasons, but your soil, weather, and animals will have opinions of their own. Treat everything here as a starting point, check anything involving food safety or animal health against your local extension office, and tell us when something is wrong. We fix it.