Table Greens is a regenerative homestead built by hand on 20+ acres of 80% woodland and 20% pasture. Rotational grazing, aquaponics, a market garden and on-site cold storage are being built in five phases into one working system.
"Every tree cleared, every fence post set, every fish tank filled - by hand."
Table Greens is the result of years of dreaming and months of doing. Starting with 20+ acres of mostly wooded land, we set out to build a homestead that doesn't just sustain itself - it thrives, produces abundantly, and welcomes others in.
The property sits 80% in mature woodland and 20% in open pasture. That ratio isn't a limitation - it's a gift. The trees provide firewood, lumber, shade for animals, wind protection for crops, and habitat for wildlife. The open land feeds our rotating herds of goats, cattle, and pigs.
The full homestead vision is ambitious: a working farm stand at the front of the property, an aquaponic system with grow troughs and trout-style raceways, a natural swimming pool with sand beach entry, an outdoor kitchen and firepit area, a custom cold storage and dry-aging room, a butcher station, equipment barn, and an on-site sawmill for milling our own lumber.
Inside the home, everything is modern and comfortable. The contrast of raw, working land outside and a well-designed living space inside is exactly the point. This is regenerative homesteading for the 21st century.
We put more back into the land than we take out. Rotational grazing, composting, aquaponic water recycling, and food forest design are all part of a system that improves each year.
Every animal on this homestead lives a real life - outdoors, on pasture, with purpose. Our livestock guardian dogs protect the herds. Our cats keep rodents in check. Everything has a role.
The homesteading knowledge we share freely here exists because others shared before us. We write detailed guides, publish real build costs, and share our failures as honestly as our successes.
Clearing land, establishing perimeter fencing, putting in roads and water access.
Chicken coops, goat shelters, pig rotation paddocks, dog kennels, and the first livestock arrivals.
Installing grow troughs, raceways, pond stocking, and water management systems.
Cold storage room, dry-aging chamber, butcher station, canning kitchen, and cellar storage.
Natural pool excavation, sand beach, farm stand buildout, outdoor kitchen and firepit area.
Table Greens covers 20+ acres. About 80% is mature woodland and 20% is open pasture, which works out to roughly 4 acres of grazeable ground split into a three-paddock rotation. The woodland is treated as an asset rather than a limitation: it supplies firewood and lumber, shade for animals, wind protection for crops and habitat for wildlife.
It means putting more back into the land than we take out. Rotational grazing, composting, aquaponic water recycling and food forest design all work as one system that improves each year. Every animal lives outdoors on pasture with a purpose, from the guardian dogs that protect the herds to the cats that keep rodents in check, and we document what we learn openly.
The homestead is being built in five phases: land clearing and fencing; animal infrastructure such as coops, goat shelters and pig paddocks; aquaponics and the pond; processing and storage, including the cold storage and dry-aging room, butcher station and canning kitchen; and finally the farm stand, natural swimming pool and outdoor kitchen. Table Greens is still in development and not yet open to visitors.
Because the homesteading knowledge we rely on exists only because others shared it first. We write detailed guides, publish real build costs and share our failures as honestly as our successes. Our blog includes, for example, a full cost breakdown of our first aquaponics system at about $1,390 and our cold storage and dry-aging room at about $12,870.