Less tapping. More tending. This update brings a clearer view of your day, faster logging and new search across your homestead, so you can spend less time finding information and more time getting things done. YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE See overdue and due work first, with your Field Log close at hand to capture what you do next. FASTER FIELD LOGGING Record notes, harvests and chores from the top of every area, without scrolling through your lists. SEARCH YOUR WHOLE HOMESTEAD Find animals, items, logbook entries, reminders, inventory and preservation batches, then jump straight to the details. PROTECTED UNSAVED WORK Navigate with confidence. Homestead Keeper checks before discarding notes or edits you haven’t saved. YOUR PLACE, IN FOCUS Keep Today, Reports and new entries centered on your selected place. SMARTER PANTRY ORGANIZATION Browse with search and filters, and use Needs Attention to spot food that’s expiring or running low. EASIER ACCESS TO DETAILS Jump between sections on animal and item pages with a tap using the new scrollable section bar. A BETTER IPAD EXPERIENCE Lists adapt to your window size, while keyboard shortcuts make adding items and searching faster. CLEARER, MORE COMFORTABLE READING Enjoy improved text and button contrast across every theme, better dark mode readability and a richer Industrial accent color. THOUGHTFUL EVERYDAY IMPROVEMENTS Dates follow your preferred format, number fields catch mistakes before saving, and notification permission appears when you choose to enable reminders. FIXES & RELIABILITY Fixed issues with consecutive timeline edits and animals appearing unavailable in search, along with smaller improvements throughout the app.

This is a big one! Both of this update's headline features came straight from your requests, so thank you. Here's what's new on the homestead: HERDS: Keep individual animals together in a named herd, flock, or group. Pick a herd when you add or edit an animal, create one on the spot, or add animals straight from the herd's page. Each herd lists its members, with sold and past animals kept separate. HERD MENU: A new Herd menu on the Animals screen shows one herd and its members at a time, and searching for a herd's name finds every animal in it. PROPERTY LINES: Trace your property line on the satellite map by tapping its corners and see its acreage. If you know the figure from your deed or survey, enter it and it's shown everywhere instead of the map's estimate. PASTURES AND AREAS: Draw pastures and other named areas, each in its own color, with their own acreage. Link an area to one of your Places and its acreage shows on that Place's page. FENCE LINES: Draw your fences to see how many feet of fence you have. Link a fence line to a Fence or Gate item and its length shows on that item's page. WALK THE LINE: Walk a fence or boundary with your iPhone and drop corners from GPS as you go, or let it add a point every 25, 50, or 100 feet. MAP IMPROVEMENTS: Tap any boundary on the map to see its size and what it's linked to. Hide or show them all with the new Boundaries button, and manage them from Manage Places. Map Layout also works better with your phone turned sideways. HANDOFF REPORT: The Property Handoff report now includes a map of your land with a table of areas and fence lengths. SIMPLER ADD ANIMAL: Adding a herd or flock now shows only the fields that fit a group, and adding a single animal skips the head count. CEDAR RIDGE DEMO: The demo now includes a herd of does and a mapped property with pastures and a fence line, so you can try both out. THANK YOU: Your ideas shape Homestead Keeper. Herds and property boundaries both started as notes from people like you, and we read every one. Keep them coming through the Support link in Settings or a review here. Happy homesteading!

Custom breeds are now remembered. Any breed you type in will appear under "Your Breeds" for that species next time. Swipe left on one to remove it. This update also fixes an issue where editing an animal could make the app appear frozen. Animal forms now scroll properly, so Save and Cancel are always within reach. When editing an animal, Save and Cancel are now at the top of the form and Delete has moved to the bottom. The edit form also uses more of the screen. Thank you to everyone who sent feedback. Keep it coming!

Bug Fixes and improvements

Your garden now remembers every year, not just this one. SEASONS A new Seasons view in the Garden tab. Browse your garden year by year, with crops, beds, harvest totals, and a timeline of everything that happened that season. CROP ROTATION HISTORY See what each bed has grown, season by season, so you can avoid putting the same family back in the same ground two years running. HARVEST HISTORY BY CROP Follow a single crop across every season you've recorded and compare how it did. COPY LAST SEASON Start next year's bed layout from this year's instead of an empty grid. Copied plantings arrive as plans, with no dates and no harvest data carried over. Around the new year, the app will offer to do this for you. PLANTINGS LOG THEMSELVES Assigning a crop to a square in your bed layout now records the planting straight away. MORE ACCURATE HARVEST TOTALS Harvests recorded in different units are no longer added together. Pounds and bunches now sit on their own lines, and units that do convert, like ounces into pounds, are combined properly.

FOOD PRESERVATION UPDATE: Food Preservation just got a big upgrade using a new Preservation History tab. You can now create detailed preservation batch records to keep track of what you preserved, when you processed it, the method you used, quantity, recipe or source, storage location, notes, and more. Your preservation history stays separate from current inventory, so even after the last jar, bag, or batch is gone, you can still look back and see exactly what you did. We also made several behind-the-scenes improvements to data reliability, backup and restore, and iCloud syncing.

This update adds a complete timeline history view for every animal and makes the garden planting calendar much simpler to set up. Animal Timeline Each animal now has a Timeline tab that brings its whole story together in one place, newest first. It combines lifecycle milestones like acquired, born, weaned, moved, sold, and retired with the health records, weigh-ins, and breeding you already log elsewhere. Routine daily entries stay out of the way, so the timeline reads as a clear history of the moments that matter. Quick, guided actions Recording a sale, a move, processing, a death, or a retirement now takes just a few taps, and an animal's status updates automatically from its most recent event. A sale can also create a linked income entry, so your records and your finances stay connected. Cleaner animal lists Species sections can be collapsed, and you can hide sold, retired, or deceased animals from view. Nothing is ever deleted. Your historical records stay right where you left them. Export Animal Timeline to PDF Export an animal's full timeline, or a complete record report, as a clean PDF for buyers, your veterinarian, or your own files. An easier planting calendar Adding a crop to the Garden Timeline is much clearer now. The empty calendar explains where crops come from and gives you a button to add one directly. When you choose a crop, the app fills in seed, transplant, and harvest dates from your frost dates automatically, so your crops appear on the timeline without extra setup. You can also sort the timeline by planting date, crop name, or harvest date. Along with a range of smaller fixes and refinements throughout the app.

This update fixes animals appearing under the wrong category filter. Categories now follow each animal's species. The breed picker opens directly to your animal's breeds, and custom Tag and ID fields are no longer cleared when editing an animal. Thanks for the feedback, and keep it coming!