Free homestead expense tracker — with a Schedule F summary.

Get the season’s numbers in one place before tax time sneaks up. An Excel tracker that sorts every receipt into Schedule F categories and adds it up by enterprise, plus a printable log for the truck. Free, no signup.

✓ Excel with the formulas built in✓ No email required✓ Schedule F lines already mapped

Homestead Expense & Income Tracker

Free

Four tabs: log expenses, log income, and the Summary tab totals it by Schedule F line and by enterprise — so you can see what the goats cost versus what the eggs brought in without doing a single sum yourself.

Expenses: Date · Vendor · What · Schedule F category (dropdown) · Enterprise · Amount · Receipt? · Income: Date · Source · Category · Enterprise · Amount · Summary: totals by line, by enterprise, net

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In the app every purchase is already categorized, split by enterprise, and rolled into a Schedule F summary you can print. Track it free →

Printable Expense Log

Free

A one-page log for the barn or the truck — jot it now, type it later.

Date · Vendor · What · Category · Enterprise · Amount · Receipt kept?

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Or snap the receipt in the app and skip the typing. Track it free →

Schedule F Category Card

Free

Which line does feed go on? Fence wire? The processor’s bill? A one-page reference to tape inside the cabinet door.

All Part II expense lines · what a homestead typically puts on each · the income lines

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The app’s categories map to these lines already. Track it free →

Where things go on Schedule F

The IRS form for farm profit or loss, Part II. Here’s where a typical homestead’s spending lands — the same mapping the tracker’s dropdown uses.

Line	Category	What a homestead puts here
16	Feed	Hay, grain, layer pellets, minerals, milk replacer
26	Seeds and plants	Seed, transplants, seed garlic, fruit trees
17	Fertilizers and lime	Compost bought in, soil amendments, lime
31	Veterinary, breeding, and medicine	Vet visits, CDT, dewormer, stud fees, hatching eggs
28	Supplies	Fence wire, feeders, waterers, canning jars and lids, bedding
25	Repairs and maintenance	Coop and fence repairs, tractor parts, pump service
13	Custom hire	The processor’s kill fee and cut & wrap, hay baling, brush hogging
19	Gasoline, fuel, and oil	Tractor diesel, mower gas, generator fuel
30	Utilities	The barn’s share of electric and water, heated waterers
18	Freight and trucking	Hauling animals or feed, delivery fees
20	Insurance	Farm liability, livestock coverage (not health)
24	Rent or lease	Leased pasture or equipment, a rented bull
29	Taxes	Property tax on farm ground, ag-use assessments
10	Car and truck	Farm miles or actual truck costs
14	Depreciation	Tractor, chest freezer, incubator — bigger purchases spread over years
32	Other	Anything that doesn’t fit above — label it

Not tax advice. Schedule F is for a farming business. Whether your homestead counts as a business or a hobby for tax purposes turns on profit motive and your own facts, and it changes what you can deduct — that’s a question for a tax professional. This tracker organizes your numbers either way; it doesn’t decide that for you.

Tax time as a summary, not a shoebox

Know what the place actually costs — by enterprise

Homestead Paradise puts the money next to the records that caused it. Receipts get categorized and split across chickens, goats, garden and pigs; budgets, cost-to-produce and a P&L come out the other end; and the Schedule F summary is a button, not a weekend. Harold, your Smart Advisor, watches the spending against the budget all year, not just in April.

“Feed is 62% of your spend this year, and the goats are running about $38 a head over budget — the garden paid for itself back in July. Worth a look at the hay price before you buy the winter’s.” Your Smart Advisor points things out and suggests what he’d check — you decide.

Start free →

Free to start with a 14-day full trial, then it settles onto the free plan — never a paywall. Export to CSV anytime; we don’t train any model on your records.

More for the fall

Fall homestead checklistTally the season is one line on it — here’s the rest.Winter hay calculatorBudget the biggest line on the sheet before you buy.Cut sheet & processing templatesThe kill fee goes on line 13 — custom hire.

Common questions

What is Schedule F?

The IRS form (filed with a 1040) for reporting profit or loss from farming. Part I is income — livestock, produce, eggs, meat, custom work — and Part II is expenses by category. The tracker above is organized the same way, so tax time is a summary of what you already logged.

Is my homestead a farm or a hobby for taxes?

Honestly, that depends on your profit motive and your own facts, and it matters — hobby expenses generally are not deductible, while a farm business files Schedule F. We are not going to guess for you; a tax professional can. What the tracker does either way is show you what each enterprise really costs, which is worth knowing whether or not you ever file the form.

Do I need to keep receipts?

Yes — the log is only as good as what backs it up. Keep them by category and date; a photo is fine. The printable log has a “receipt kept?” column for exactly that reason, and the app lets you snap the receipt when you log the purchase.

What counts as an enterprise?

Each thing you run that has its own costs and income — the laying flock, the goats, the garden, the feeder pigs. Splitting spending by enterprise is what tells you the eggs are profitable and the goats are not (or the other way round). Homestead Paradise keeps separate books per enterprise that roll up to the whole place.

Are these really free?

Yes — download the Excel file and the PDFs, no signup and no email. Homestead Paradise has a free tier too if you would rather the categorizing happen for you.

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