About The Hollowpost General

The instinct never left. It just got buried.

Civilization didn't start at a grocery store. It started with people foraging, growing, preserving, and figuring out how to feed themselves and their families through the winter. That knowledge is still in us. And right now, a lot of people are digging it back up.

I'm one of them. My name is Justin. I spent twelve years as a Cavalry Scout in the U.S. Army — 1999 to 2011. That job teaches you to read terrain, work with what you have, and keep moving. Those same instincts are what drew me to homesteading. You're solving real problems with your hands. What you put in is what you get out.

When I started down this path, the biggest obstacle wasn't motivation or resources. It was the noise. There is no shortage of information about homesteading — blogs, videos, forums, books. There's a shortage of the right information, in the right order, for someone who just wants to know what to do next without wading through everything else to find it.

That's why I built The Hollowpost General. Not as an expert who has it all figured out — I'm still working through it, same as you — but as someone moving through the same journey who wanted a store that cuts through the clutter. Good tools. Practical guides. Supplies that make sense for the work. And a selection that grows as I learn, because I'm only putting things in here that I'd actually use myself.

What You'll Find Here

The Hollowpost General carries tools and supplies across the things that matter most to a working homestead: fermentation and scratch cooking, food preservation and canning, the kitchen garden, the first flock, and the know-how to back it all up. The digital guides — planners, trackers, and planting calendars — exist because I needed them and couldn't find versions that were actually useful. So I built them.

From One Homesteader to Another

Whether you're ordering your first bag of seeds or your fifth fermentation crock, you're in the right place. The goal here is simple: help you get started, help you get better, and help you build something your family can depend on.

— Justin
The Hollowpost General