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The good life is built one small skill at a time.

Gardening, chickens and homesteading for people starting from zero, with honest guides and quiet tools that remember the details.

First steps

Where would you like to begin?

  1. Plant your first gardenFind 6–8 hours of sun, start with one bed, learn your frost dates and grow five easy crops.
  2. Keep a few hensCheck local rules, build the coop before the birds, start with three or four, and warm the brooder first.
  3. Start homesteadingBegin with what you eat most, preserve it with a tested recipe, compost your scraps, add one project a season.

Quiet tools for the notebook you'd never keep.

One Acre & Hearth membership, every app: [PRICE] a year. Free to start, free to self-host.

Start free

A seed-starting calendar, made for your yard.

Free and printable, from your ZIP code's frost dates. Then a short letter from the homestead once a month.

Sign-ups open soon. The calendar is still being put together. Check back shortly, or write to hello@acreandhearth.com and we'll send it when it's ready.