The sun coming up behind a treeline, seen across a dewy pasture and a steel farm gate.

Track your homestead.

Animals, orchard, stores, and the work ahead, in one place. Written once, in the moment, and still there next season.

Works in a current browser today, and installs to your home screen. iPhone and Android apps are in development.

Your records are in six places, and none of them agree.

The barn notebook 4/12: 9 eggs. Marigold off feed, watch her. Rained on twice
The spreadsheet Harvest totals, 2023. Last opened in February
The camera roll A photo of a tree tag, somewhere between 4,000 photos of the dog. Which tree was it?
Texts with the vet "5cc, twice a day." Or was that the other goat, last spring? Scroll up and hope
The whiteboard Breeding dates, due dates, who's bred to whom. Wiped last Tuesday
Memory How many jars of tomatoes are left, and will they last to June? How old is this jar?

One record, written once, on the phone already in your pocket, and readable by everyone who works the place.

The Track dashboard for a demo farm: what needs doing, this week's eggs and milk, what's in stores, and money spent.

Everything that happens on a small place.

Livestock

Animals and their lineage, breeding with due dates worked out by species, treatments with follow-ups, and the daily count of eggs, milk, and fiber.
Orchard

Every tree from planting through harvest: pruning, pest treatments, and grafts, with success rates by method and variety.
Stores

Canning, freezing, and drying, with batches linked back to the harvest they came from. See what's in the freezer and on the shelf.
Garden

Beds and plans, flats from sowing to transplant, and harvests, with each planting's next step on the day it's due.
Seeds

Every packet you have, how old it is and whether it still sprouts, a buy list, and growing guides by variety.
Money

Expenses by category, slaughter weights, and cuts, so you can see what the place costs and what it puts in the freezer.

It says what you'd say.

Not Type, Breed, Sex, and Age in four boxes. Just: “A 3-year-old Nubian doe in milk, giving about 2 quarts a day.”

It gives a daily rate once most of the week is logged. Until then, it says what was logged. Kids, treatments, and every log are right there under the name.

Three white goats with long ears on straw at an open barn door, one of them behind a wire panel.

A demo goat's record, with a sentence saying what she is, a month of milk as bars, her kids, and what's on file.

From the seed packet to the harvest.

Plan the beds, sow the flats, and know what seed you have before you order more. Each planting says what's next and when: start indoors, pot up, plant out, harvest.

A flat is a grid you fill in as you sow, and each cell says what's in it. A packet knows how old it is, and when it's time to test it.

A demo garden's year as bars: each planting indoors, in its bed, and in harvest, from February to October.

A demo seed inventory: each variety, its crop, whether it's still viable, and the packets on hand.

Know what to do next.

Prep turns the long list into today's list. It knows what's waiting on what, what's at risk, and how many hours each person really has.

It proposes a schedule. Nothing moves until you apply it. It can also suggest who does what, give each kid a view of their own jobs, and point out the dry days for outdoor work.

At risk 1

Fix the barn door Quick · at risk, due Friday

Next up 4

Order the UPS battery Quick · about $180
Stack the first cord of wood Half day · the kids can help
Clean out the root cellar Half day
Rebuild the chicken run gate Full day · waiting on lumber

See the whole job before you start it.

Tasks link to what has to happen first, so buying the boards comes before cutting them. The task graph draws a project, or everything left in one area, as one picture.

When a dated task is at risk, the critical path shows the chain of work holding it up, and where to start.

A demo task graph for a hoop house: what's done, what's ready now, and what's waiting on what, read left to right.

Built for hands that are already full.

Chores don't happen at a desk, so logging shouldn't either. Log eggs, milk, treatments, and harvests where you're standing, and they sync when you're back in range.

The web app works on your phone today. iPhone and Android apps are in development.

The dashboard on a phone, for a demo farm.

Logging a treatment on a phone, for a demo goat.

Not here yet.

We list these so you know where it's going. None of them work today, and we'll say when they do.

Food storage Every bucket and tote, counted, with how many months it feeds your people.
Labels and audits A QR label on each container, and a count you can do over a week.
Water runway How many days of drinking water, and what the totes could hold.
iPhone and Android apps Working offline in the barn, and syncing when you're back in range.

John and Whitney Athayde, smiling, cheek to cheek.

Who we are

We are John and Whitney Athayde, and HomesteadTrack runs our farm first. Sfumato Farm is a small permaculture farm outside Charlottesville, Virginia, and we’ve been building it since 2013 from a home office, with four kids underfoot, all of them human. John runs Meticulous, a software design and build agency, which helps when your farm needs an app.