plotsPlotsFarm for homesteaders
Grow for your table
A kitchen garden, a dozen fruit trees, a flock behind the barn, and a pantry that has to last until April. You are growing for your own table, maybe with eggs and extra squash for the neighbors, and the week is a planting window, a scouting walk, and a frost forecast. PlotsFarm keeps the plan, the harvest, and the pest notes together on one login, without pretending you run a business.
What it fixes for homesteaders
The problem
You are growing for the pantry, not the market, and every planning tool wants a price list and a customer before it will tell you when to sow the peas.
What PlotsFarm does
Plan from your frost dates
Enter your location once and PlotsFarm sets spring and fall sow windows for the crops in its library from your frost dates, not a national calendar. Setup skips beds if you do not use them. Overrides for your own garden stick year to year, rotation history warns before the brassicas land where they grew last year, and the store and shares wait until you want them.
Tomato (Cherokee Purple) · window May 2 to May 23 · Bed 3 · transplant from 72-cell tray
The problem
Forty pounds of tomatoes in a week, a shelf of butternut, and a freezer nobody has inventoried since August. Something is always turning before you get to it.
What PlotsFarm does
A pantry that says eat this first
Log what you pull on your phone. Each harvest becomes a lot with a shelf life drawn from the catalog's USDA postharvest defaults, which you can override. Anything within three days of turning gets a badge, and a push goes out the evening before a lot expires. Record what was used up, given away, or kept back; totals per planting tell you whether 40 feet of beans was enough.
12 · Winter squash (Waltham butternut) · Bed 8 · logged Oct 3 · expiring badge Jan 14
The problem
The forecast says 34 at dawn. You have a pile of row cover, an hour of daylight, and no list of which beds actually hold something tender.
What PlotsFarm does
Frost tonight: cover these first
The dashboard shows the next frost on the horizon and a frost-watch banner that lists the tender plantings at risk, bed by bed, with a push the evening a frost is forecast. Connect your own Ecowitt weather station to read the garden's temperature rather than the airport's. Your frost dates also set every sow window, so the risk is planned around, not just announced.
Frost watch · 34°F Thu dawn · Tomato Bed 3 · Basil Bed 5 · cover by dusk
Crop planning
Planting windows from your own frost dates
Enter your location once and PlotsFarm sets spring and fall sow windows for the crops in its library from your frost dates, not a national calendar. The plan-health rules flag lettuce sown into August heat or a transplant ahead of forecast cold. Overrides for your own garden stick year to year, and the seed order totals itself before the catalogs arrive.
More on crop planning →Harvests and inventory
A pantry that tells you what to eat first
Every harvest is a lot with a shelf life drawn from the catalog's USDA postharvest defaults, which you can override. Anything within three days of turning gets a badge, and a push goes out the evening before it expires. Record what was used up, given away, or kept back; the audit log keeps the history. Actual against expected on each planting shows which crop earned its bed and which did not.
More on harvests and inventory →
Observations and crop health
Notes that stay with the bed
A photo, a voice note, or a line of text attaches to the bed where you stood. Pest scouts logs pest and severity in two taps, pre-filled from last time, and builds a pressure map across the beds. Photo identification names a plant or insect from a picture and can become a scout entry straight away. Next spring, the bed still remembers.
More on observations and crop health →Weather and sensors
Frost tonight: pick these first
The dashboard shows the next frost on the horizon and lists the tender plantings at risk, with a push the evening a frost is forecast. Connect your own Ecowitt weather station to read the garden's temperature rather than the airport's. Weather history answers whether this July really was hotter than last.
More on weather and sensors →
Pricing
Start on the free tier
Free is a plan, not a trial. Plan the season, work the task list, log harvests, run a CSA and an online store, and take payments, with no subscription and no card. Selling carries a per-transaction fee; the numbers are on the pricing page.