THE STEADING CODEX — PRESS & MEDIA FACT SHEET
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For journalists, editors, and reviewers.
Questions and review copies: press@thesteadingcodex.com

THE SHORT VERSION
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The Steading Codex is a series of fifteen field journals for the working
homestead, written under the name Hadley Wren. Together they form a single
closed-loop system - from bare soil to zero waste - across five phases:
Prepare the Land, Grow the Green, Raise the Flock, Process the Harvest, and
Steward the Loop. Published by Web Production Labs LLC (United States).

FACT SHEET
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- What it is:   15 field journals - a planning and record-keeping system
- Structure:    5 phases x 3 volumes = 15 books, forming one closed loop
- Format:       paperback (6" x 9") and digital; hardcover on select titles
- Author:       Hadley Wren (a pen name)
- Publisher:    Web Production Labs LLC (United States), d/b/a The Steading Codex
- Where to buy: Amazon (print) and the official store at shop.thesteadingcodex.com
- Press contact: press@thesteadingcodex.com

ABOUT THE STEADING CODEX (boilerplate - quotable)
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The Steading Codex is built on one idea: the work of a homestead is worth
recording. Soil temperatures, hive inspections, seed germination, compost
ratios - the Codex turns the slow, cyclical work of self-sufficiency into
something you can track, plan, and return to season after season. Each of the
fifteen volumes is a structured field journal for one part of the loop.

The system is organized as a single loop. Phase by phase, the journals move from
preparing the ground, to growing food, to raising animals, to processing the
harvest, to closing the loop with composting and reuse - bare soil to zero
waste. It is written for people who already do the work and want a better way to
hold it: deliberately practical, deliberately analog, made to be written in by
hand, in the field.

ABOUT HADLEY WREN
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Hadley Wren is a pen name under which the journals are written and published by
Web Production Labs LLC. We disclose this openly. The name represents the
collected, edited knowledge published under the Codex, rather than a claim about
a single identifiable individual.

THE FIVE PHASES
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1. Prepare the Land  - soil, biochar, water
2. Grow the Green    - vertical growing, balcony, herbs
3. Raise the Flock   - chickens, bees, rabbits
4. Process the Harvest - ferments, apothecary, smoke & salt
5. Steward the Loop  - harvest, inputs, scrap

ASSETS IN THIS KIT
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/covers   Front-cover artwork for all 15 volumes (PNG).
/logos    The Steading Codex marks (SVG + PNG, dark and light variants).
Please don't alter the logo. "Hadley Wren" and "The Steading Codex" are marks
of Web Production Labs LLC.

Operated by Web Production Labs LLC, d/b/a The Steading Codex.
