Running a homestead means running five jobs at once
You’re planning the garden, keeping an eye on the chickens, remembering which beans need pressure canning, wondering when the tomato seed expires, and hoping the goats got fed, all across a notebook, a spreadsheet and an app you forgot about last spring. HomesteadOS puts all of it in one place: one dashboard, one file, your whole homestead.
Plan the garden properly
- Garden beds: every plot’s size, sun and notes, with plantings linked to the bed they’re growing in, from sowing to harvest.
- Seed vault: log each variety with its source and purchase date, and it works out which seed is still good and which needs replacing.
- Planting calendar: enter your own last and first frost dates once and get start-indoors, sow and harvest dates for 15 common crops.
Keep the flock and herd on track
- Livestock & flock: every animal, breed, tag and status in one table, for chickens, ducks, goats, sheep, cows, pigs, rabbits and bee hives.
- Health & breeding log: health checks, vaccinations, treatments and breeding dates, so you’re never guessing when the goats were last wormed.
Preserve it properly, and safely
- Recipe library with 8 tested canning recipes built in, plus your own.
- Batch planner: pick a recipe and the number of jars, and every ingredient scales automatically.
- Altitude adjuster: the right processing time or pressure for your elevation.
- Safety center: botulism prevention, jar seals, spoilage signs, acidity, food and water storage, and a pre-canning checklist.
- Label designer for printable jar labels, plus a batch log you can export to CSV.
- Pantry & storage: jars, freezer, dry goods and root cellar in one inventory, with an expiry watch.
Run it like a going concern
- Chores that work out their own next due date when you mark them done, from daily feeding to seasonal jobs.
- Projects for builds and repairs, with budget against actual spend.
- Budget & self-sufficiency: income, expenses and the value of everything you grow and make yourself, so you can see whether the homestead pays for itself.
- Seasonal almanac: what to plant, tend and preserve, month by month.
Private and offline
No account, no subscription and no server. HomesteadOS runs completely offline, even on a laptop at the back of the barn, and everything you enter stays in your own browser. It’s built for one person on one computer, so it doesn’t sync between devices.
Canning recipes and safety guidance follow USDA and Ball standards. For anything safety-critical, always check current guidance from your local extension office.
Like all Nexior Gray products, HomesteadOS is a single HTML file. Open it in any browser and it works immediately. Buy once and it’s yours.
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