Every aspiring homesteader asks it. Five Acres of Freedom was written to answer it — plan a year's food, map your land to scale, and keep every record your homestead produces.
🍏 Download on the App Store 📱 On Android? Join the waitlistWhat it does
Set your parcel once, then place garden beds, orchard blocks at true tree spacing, vineyard rows, pastures, coops, ponds, and buildings — drawn to real proportions, draggable, and honest about the ground each one takes.
Tell it what you need — 300 lbs of tomatoes, six dozen eggs a week, a year of milk — and it answers in plants, hens, and head, then places the beds, coops, and pasture on your map. Conservative on purpose.
Every crop in nine growing catalogs carries an authored yield range — and once you log real harvests, egg counts, butcher days, and milking, the planner prefers your numbers over the book's.
Nine bird species, rabbits through cattle, bees to barn cats — flocks, named animals, pedigrees, incubation-to-flock lifecycles, feed bins that track their own level, and butcher windows by breed.
Frost dates derived from ten years of your own local weather, planting windows for ~376 crops, husbandry schedules, succession sowings — with local reminders that arrive the morning a job is due.
Log canning, ferments, cheese, syrup, and salves with ready dates and honest shelf lives; attach photos to any record; and read your whole homestead's history back as one season-by-season journal.
See it in action
The demo homestead, exactly as the app draws it — swipe through.
No accounts. No cloud. No analytics, no ads, no tracking — not trimmed down, absent. Everything you record stays on your iPhone. The app's only network requests fetch the weather. Read the whole privacy policy — it's short because there's nothing to disclose.