If you keep a homestead, you know the records pile up fast: egg counts in a notebook, planting dates on the calendar, canning jars labeled by hand, feed receipts in a drawer. Homestead Paradise pulls all of it into one place — and then does something most apps don’t: it actually reads your records and advises you from them.
It’s built by the maker of Quail Keeper Max, for folks who would rather be outside than wrangling spreadsheets. Here’s what it does.
One home for your whole homestead
Homestead Paradise organizes your place into four areas that each keep their own books and roll up into a single homestead total:
- Livestock — any species: poultry, goats, rabbits, bees. Track production, breeding, incubation and gestation, health, and feed costs.
- Garden & Crops — beds, plantings, and varieties, with a planting calendar tuned to your frost dates and hardiness zone.
- Preservation — canning, freezing, and curing, tracked batch by batch from harvest to pantry, with best-by reminders before anything turns.
- Infrastructure — equipment and maintenance, frost-aware warnings, and one task list that spans the whole property.
Instead of five notebooks and three apps, it’s one place that finally sees the whole picture — including how the money flows across all of it.
Meet Harold, your Smart Homestead advisor
This is what sets Homestead Paradise apart. Most apps just store what you type. Harold reads it — then advises you, answers your questions, and simply guides you down the path of efficiency.
Ask him “how are my hens doing this week?” and he might answer: your Buff Orpingtons laid 19 eggs this week, down 38% from 31 last week — that lines up with the cold snap and shorter days; consider adding a few hours of morning and evening coop light and bumping their protein. Every answer cites your real numbers and dates — this week’s lay rate, your frost window, your feed spend — not generic tips off the internet.
And he’s proactive. Harold flags the lay-rate dip, tonight’s frost, the jam about to expire, and the tractor overdue for service — before you think to ask. He’s fluent in husbandry and growing across poultry, goats, rabbits, bees, and the kitchen garden, the way a neighbor with thirty years on the land would talk.
In the barn, not just at the desk
Homestead Paradise runs in any modern browser — Chrome, Safari, Edge — on your phone, tablet, or computer. Add it to your phone’s home screen and it opens like any other app, no app store required. Log a dropped egg count or a new planting right where you’re standing, mud on your boots and all.
Built on respect for your data
The advisor only works because you trust it with your records, and Homestead Paradise takes that seriously:
- Your records stay yours — they are never used to train Harold or anyone else, full stop.
- Export anytime — one click pulls everything to CSV. Nothing is locked in.
- Cancel anytime — no lock-in and no games; leave whenever you like and take your data with you.
Simple pricing — Harold pays for himself
You can log everything for free, forever, and only pay when you want the advisor in your corner. Every account starts with a 14-day full trial — no card to start.
- Free ($0): unlimited logging, one animal group and one garden bed, the cross-domain finance rollup, and 5 Harold consults a month.
- Pro ($7/mo or $49/yr): daily Harold advice, up to 5 animal groups, and garden, preservation, and equipment in full — the plan most homesteaders want.
- Max ($12/mo or $99/yr): unlimited animals and beds, breeding, incubation and gestation, feed tracking, and priority Harold.
Founding homesteads can lock in $39/year for life — limited to early sign-ups.
Who it’s for
If you keep animals, grow food, put up a pantry, or maintain the gear that holds it all together — and you’d rather act on your own numbers than guess — Homestead Paradise is built for you. Whether you’re running a few backyard hens and a raised bed or a full working homestead, it scales to fit.
Start your homestead’s smartest season
Set up your place in minutes, log what you’ve got, and let Harold take it from there. Start a free 14-day trial at homesteadparadise.farm — no card required.
Just getting started with backyard livestock? Our beginner’s guide to starting a homestead walks you through the first steps, and quail keepers can dig into the Coturnix quail care guide too.