United States · Prepared August 2026
HomesteadMaster PlanSouthwest & Pacific Northwest Edition
A practical handbook for planning, due diligence, design, build, food production, resilience, governance and operations on a multi-family homestead. It runs from site search through acquisition and buildout to stable operations.
The core rule
Water, legal access, title, buildability, wildfire and flood exposure, and governance can kill a project. Verify those before optimising gardens, solar arrays, livestock or architecture.
Orientation
How to use this plan
This is a decision-and-execution handbook, not a substitute for local legal, engineering, agricultural, fire, water-rights, septic or building-code advice. Use it first to eliminate unsuitable land, then to organise professional diligence, then as a phased operating playbook.
Your working state
Where the group stands
Everything you tick or type is held live on this page. Use Save in the header to export a single file, and Load to bring it back or hand it to another member.
The handbook
Twenty sections, in order of consequence
Work top to bottom the first time. After that, treat it as reference. Chapters carrying live calculators or worksheets are marked.