A notebook that does the arithmetic.
Log what you feed, collect, pick, and sell. Farmstead Helper works out what a dozen eggs or a pound of meat cost you to raise, and what came back in, from the records you already kept. Nothing is typed in twice, and nothing drifts out of date.
Free while it fits. $8/month or $79/year after that.
What it cost, and what came back
Feed, seed, and compost go in as you buy them. Eggs, birds, meat, and produce go in as you sell them. Each flock and planting shows its cost per dozen or per pound, with what you got for it and the difference beside it.
Plan the beds before you go outside
Lay out each bed square by square and plan next season in it before you sow. It warns you when something is in a bad spot, and says whether that warning is researched, traditional, or disputed. In the US, your frost dates are estimated from the nearest NOAA weather station, and the sow dates follow from them.
Count the honor box
Add your stands and the things you make, like bread or jam. At the end of the day, type what was taken and what was in the box. It splits the money across the items to the cent and, from your price list, shows what went missing.
Or just tell it what happened
Say “I sold 6 dozen eggs and 4 loaves today” to an AI assistant like Claude, and both sales go in the record. It can log feedings, losses, and harvests, and it can fix a mistake, not only look things up. Part of Pro. How it works
- Your records export free, foreverA spreadsheet of everything you have recorded, on any plan, any time. It is yours to keep, not ours to hold.
- Works offline in the coopLog eggs, feed, harvests, and losses with no signal. They sync when you are back in range.
- Cancel whenever you likeMonthly or yearly, no contract. Dropping to Free never deletes anything you have recorded.
Also in there
- A name and a history for any bird you want to follow, including how it left the flock
- A note on the entries you log, and a notebook for everything else
- Photos on a bed, a bird, a flock, or a planting
- Equipment, with its service history and a reminder when maintenance is due
- Flowers and cover crops in the garden catalog, next to the vegetables
- Your existing flocks, plantings, and beds, imported from a spreadsheet
- An email on any night frost is forecast at your homestead, once you have saved its location and turned on frost alerts
- A daily or weekly email listing what needs doing, if you turn it on
How each of these works is on the help page.
Free tools, no account needed
Egg cost per dozen calculator, Frost dates by ZIP or postcode, Meat bird cost per pound calculator, Seed starting dates by ZIP or postcode. See all the free tools.
Built by one person who raises meat birds and layers, processes his own birds, and gardens, and uses this on his own homestead. Why I built this.
Free for a real first season
Start recording today. See what it costs on the pricing page.
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