A Fifteen-Volume Series By Hadley Wren
Fifteen field
journals.
One closed-loop
system.
From bare soil to zero waste. Prepare, grow, raise, process, steward — the working homestead's year, in fifteen working ledgers. Start anywhere. Volume Fifteen loops back to Volume One.
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Soil Soul
HC·01
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The Biochar Index
HC·02
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The Water Code
HC·03
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Vertex Green
HC·04
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Balcony Bloom
HC·05
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Herb Helix
HC·06
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Hatch & Hover
HC·07
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Hive Heartbeat
HC·08
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Rabbit Ledger
HC·09
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The Culture Archive
HC·10
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Plant Apothecary
HC·11
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Smoke & Salt
HC·12
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The Harvest Vault
HC·13
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Vital Inputs
HC·14
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The Scrap Alchemy
HC·15
FIG. 01 · The fifteen-volume shelf, in narrative order 6 × 9 in 120 pp / vol Matte
§ 01 The Problem Every working
Every working
homestead
leaks data.
You inherited a system that runs on memory and scraps of paper. Compost pile turned… last weekend? Drip line zone three — was that the new emitter or the old? Brooder hit 95°F or 92°F yesterday? You think the queen is laying but it's been two weeks since you really looked. The cost of that drift is invisible until February.
If your homestead notes are spread across three notebooks, a phone, and a kitchen drawer — this is the system you've been improvising toward.
The fix isn't another how-to book. You already know how. What you need is a ledger — one that fits in the pocket of a work jacket, lives next to the coop or the smokehouse, and connects to every other ledger on the shelf so last season's outputs become this season's inputs.
The Steading Codex is fifteen of those ledgers, structured as one system. Soil to biochar to water. Greens to herbs to bees. Ferment to cure to pantry. Waste back to compost. The shelf runs in order, but you start wherever the work is loudest right now.
§ 02 The System A working
A working
homestead,
in order.
Each phase opens the door to the next. Prepare the land before you grow it. Grow the green before you raise the flock that eats it. Process the harvest before you steward the pantry that holds it. Five phases, three volumes each, fifteen total. Volume Fifteen returns to Volume One.
01 / 05HC·01 → 03
Prepare
the land.
the land.
Foundation. Build the soil, charge the carbon, design the water. Three substrates that everything downstream depends on.
02 / 05HC·04 → 06
Grow
the green.
the green.
Production. First harvests: fast crops, container beds, medicinal cuttings. Windowsill to rooftop, microgreens to apothecary.
03 / 05HC·07 → 09
Raise
the flock.
the flock.
Animals enter the system. Chicks, bees, rabbits — each with its own ledger. Genetics as data, weight as truth.
04 / 05HC·10 → 12
Process
the harvest.
the harvest.
Transformation. Ferment, extract, cure, smoke — preserve everything. Twelve-day curves, salt equilibrium, mold reference.
05 / 05HC·13 → 15
Steward
the loop.
the loop.
Closure. Stock the pantry, manage resources, recycle the rest. The waste audit becomes the next compost pile.
∞ / loopHC·15 → HC·01
The
loop closes.
loop closes.
Vol. 15 returns to → Vol. 01
The waste audit becomes the next compost pile. Volume Fifteen is also Volume Zero of next year's run.
§ 03 Featured Volume The first
The first
volume
on the shelf.
Soil Soul opens Phase One. A working ledger for compost piles, worm farms, and the long arithmetic of living soil — built for the keeper who measures their year in turned heaps and milligram amendments, not in seasons.
HC · 01 · Phase 01 · Prepare the Land · COMPOST · WORMS · LIVING SOIL
Soil Soul
The slow work of making ground.
A minimalist ledger for compost piles, worm farms, and the slow work of building living ground. Not a primer. A working record — built to be kept on the bench, opened to the next blank entry, and filled in with a pencil. 120 pages, 6 × 9 inches, matte cover.
01 40 compost pile logs · temp, moisture, C:N ratio
02 16 worm farm entries · feed, harvest, leachate
03 16 soil-health audits · jar, pH, NPK reference
04 7-problem odor troubleshooting key
05 Compost tea brewing log
06 Amendment calendar & bed planner
§ 04 The Collection Fifteen
Fifteen
volumes,
filter as you go.
Each volume is a working journal for one specific niche. Hover any cover to see the spine. Filter by phase to plan your shelf — or just browse in order, like the book was built to be read.
HC · 01 Soil Soul $15.99
HC · 02 The Biochar Index $15.99
HC · 03 The Water Code $15.99
HC · 04 Vertex Green $15.99
HC · 05 Balcony Bloom $15.99
HC · 06 Herb Helix $15.99
HC · 07 Hatch & Hover $15.99
HC · 08 Hive Heartbeat $15.99
HC · 09 Rabbit Ledger $15.99
HC · 10 The Culture Archive $15.99
HC · 11 Plant Apothecary $15.99
HC · 12 Smoke & Salt $15.99
HC · 13 The Harvest Vault $15.99
HC · 14 Vital Inputs $15.99
HC · 15 The Scrap Alchemy $15.99
★★★★★ · KDP Verified Readers
These aren't picture books. They're working ledgers. After a season with Soil Soul my compost finished in 90 days instead of 'next year.'
★★★★★
"Best gardening journal I've owned. The 5 mm grid is exactly right for sketching beds and the C:N reference is bookmarked already."
★★★★★
"I keep one volume in the coop. Hatch & Hover's day-by-day brooder temps saved me three chicks last spring."
§ 05 · The Offer The shelf is
The shelf is
ready when you are.
One closed-loop system. Fifteen working journals. Lifetime digital access for less than the cost of three print volumes on Amazon — and a free pack with twenty pages of real journal content if you want to see the system before you commit.
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