Every feature comes from real homesteading needs — not from a product wishlist. If it helps your family become more self-sufficient, it's in here.
🌱Garden — hemisphere-aware planting guide
The garden tab knows your hemisphere and current season. It tells you exactly what to plant right now, what companion plants work together, how to handle pests naturally, and includes a live 7-day rainfall and wind forecast so you plan like a commercial farmer.
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💚Home Health — natural remedy finder
12 symptom categories with expandable remedy cards — each showing age suitability, shelf life, ingredients, method, and usage. Cough mixture, chest rub, elderberry syrup, fire cider, aloe gel, turmeric paste and more. Plus immune boosters, personal care recipes, and a full first aid checklist.
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🐓Animals — complete care & health guides
Chickens, goats, rabbits, pigs, ducks, and bees — each with a getting-started guide, daily care checklist, health & vaccination schedule, SA-specific disease alerts, kids' role, and expected returns. Plus an animal task list with dates and overdue alerts.
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🍽Food & Kitchen — preserve, store, cook
Food preservation guide covering 8 methods. 3-month pantry builder with quantities. Homestead kitchen staples — sourdough, yoghurt, passata, bone broth, lacto pickles, nut butter. All with costs shown. Kids-in-the-kitchen jobs by age.
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⭐XP system — everyone earns, everyone grows
60+ daily tasks across 8 categories. Every family member builds their own Personal XP and level — from Seedling to Land Sovereign. Family Milestones build shared XP. Submit knowledge to the hub and earn +50 XP. Get published and earn +50 more.
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✏️Share your knowledge — earn XP
Every tab has a "Add your knowledge" link that opens a full rich-text editor. Submit recipes, tips, techniques, and lessons learned. Our team reviews and publishes the best. You earn XP when you submit and again when published — your wisdom reaches every homesteader on the platform.
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🌧Rainfall tracking + 7-day forecast
Log rainfall in your journal. The Garden tab shows your last 30 days of rainfall as colour-coded tiles alongside a live Open-Meteo 7-day forecast. Wind advisory fires automatically when gusts exceed 40 km/h — so you know when not to spray pesticides.
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✅Task lists with dates — garden & animals
Add sowing, harvest, vaccination, and worming reminders with due dates. Overdue tasks highlight in red. Today's tasks in amber. Complete or delete with one tap. All per-family and persistent.
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🏡Family unit — shared homestead, individual journeys
Invite your whole family with a unique code. Adults, children, read-only or full edit — you control it all. Every member sees the same milestones and XP leaderboard. Family XP is shared. Personal XP is individual.
📓Homestead Journal
Record wins, harvests, lessons and milestones. Log rainfall, energy generation, or anything that matters to your homestead. Your full story, searchable and saved forever.
🌙Seasonal themes — your dashboard changes with nature
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter — the entire dashboard colour palette adapts to the current season in your hemisphere. Full dark mode included. Admin can override the season at any time.
🔗Earn free months — the homestead way
Every family gets a unique affiliate link. One paid referral earns one free month of the Full plan. No limit on referrals. Help your community become self-sufficient — they learn, you pay less. That's not marketing. That's a trade.
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