The Homestead Post is a home and garden magazine for people who own the problem — the leaking gutter, the lawn that won’t take, the utility bill that jumped in July.
Most home advice on the internet is written as if the whole country shared one climate, one building code and one set of rebates. It doesn’t. A watering schedule that works in Georgia will drown a garden in Arizona. A tax credit that covers half a heat pump in one state doesn’t exist two hours across the border. So we write for where you actually live.
What we cover
- Garden — planting, pruning and harvest, organized around the season you’re actually in.
- Home Care — the maintenance that gets expensive when you postpone it.
- Energy — bills, insulation, rebates, and the program rules that keep changing.
- Pests — insects, rodents and wildlife: what works, what’s a waste of money, and when to call someone.
- Decor — rooms and light, and the small changes that shift how a space feels.
- DIY — weekend projects with real tools and honest budgets.
- State Guides — the same questions, answered for your climate and your local rules.
How we work
Three habits, and we hold ourselves to them:
We give the number. Not “water deeply” but how many inches, and how often for your zone. Not “insulation pays for itself” but over how many winters. Advice you can’t act on isn’t advice.
We say when it depends. Half of home advice is regional. When the answer changes by state, climate zone or code, we say so instead of writing something vague enough to be true everywhere.
We update instead of republishing. Rebate programs expire. Product lines get discontinued. Guides carry the date they were last checked, and we go back to the ones that matter.
What you won’t find here
We don’t invent personal anecdotes to make a piece feel warmer. We don’t write “I tried this for six months” when nobody did. And we don’t recommend a product because an affiliate program pays more that week — when a piece contains affiliate links, that’s disclosed on the page.
Getting in touch
Corrections are welcome and we act on them — if something here is wrong, outdated or regionally off, tell us and we’ll fix it and note the change. Story suggestions are welcome too, especially the local ones we’d never think to ask about.