Interactive Tool

Homestead Simulator

Could your land actually carry you? Design a working homestead around your real constraints — then run it season by season for five years.

Aerial view of a small working homestead with garden beds, an orchard row, a chicken run, water tanks and solar panels at golden hour

Answer 8 questions

Climate, acreage, structures, budget, household, goal, labor and livestock appetite. About 2 minutes.

Get a full build plan

Shelter, water, energy, storage, garden, orchard and livestock — sized to your constraints and priced against your budget.

Then run five years

Scrub the build timeline to maturity, then run the homestead season by season for five years and watch your Homestead Resilience Score move.

Five systems. One score. Zero fantasy.

The simulator designs your homestead with a fixed, deterministic model — food, water, energy, storage and shelter — and scores the result 0–100. Every number is a planning range you can audit; nothing is generated on the fly and no two runs with the same answers ever differ.

  • Estimated food production in calories per year
  • Water storage days and source redundancy
  • Energy coverage, autonomy and backup
  • Pantry depth and preservation capability
  • Shelter hardening and climate adaptation
  • Budget spend vs. budget, category by category
No account required · Your answers stay in the URL