Built from nothing:
Rooted in purpose.
What started with very little more than determination, somewhat of a plan, a ton of hard work, and a willingness to figure things out has grown into The Parker Homestead—a life and collection of businesses built by hand, from the ground up.
Welcome
TO THE PARKER HOMESTEAD
What began as a family building a life on the land has grown into a collection of businesses centered around craftsmanship, creativity, self-sufficiency, and home.
The Parker Homestead brings all of our work together in one place—from construction and custom chicken coops to chicks, hatching eggs, garden goods, homemade foods, photography, artwork, and downloadable building plans.
We are builders, makers, growers, photographers, animal lovers, parents, and lifelong learners. Most of what you will find here comes directly from the life we live: building useful spaces, raising animals, growing food, preserving harvests, creating beautiful things, and helping other families do the same.
Explore Our Businesses
Parker Building and Repair Co.
Construction, Land Clearing,
Renovation and Remodel
Services
Built for Real Life
Through Parker Building & Repair Co., we provide dependable construction and property improvement services designed around the way our customers actually live and work.
Our services may include metal buildings, barns, fencing, porches, decks, patios, additions, repairs, property improvements, clearing and maintenance, and custom outdoor projects.
Every project is approached with practical planning, honest communication, and attention to the details that make a structure both functional and lasting.
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Custom-Built Homes for Happy Flocks
The Cozy Coop creates beautiful, functional chicken coops and runs for backyard flock owners, homesteaders, and breeders.
Our coops are designed with both the chickens and their keepers in mind. We focus on safe construction, practical access, easy egg collection, ventilation, roosting space, and layouts that make daily care easier.
Choose from our standard designs or work with us to create a custom coop and run that fits your flock, property, and personal style.
The Homestead
Raised, Grown, Gathered, and Made Here
The homestead is at the heart of everything we do. This is where you can follow what we are raising, growing, cooking, preserving, and creating throughout the seasons.
Chicks & Eggs
Shop available chicks, hatching eggs, and other poultry offerings raised with care on our homestead. Availability may change throughout the year depending on breeding schedules, hatch dates, and the season.
[View Chicks & Eggs]
The Kitchen
Our kitchen is where fresh ingredients and old-fashioned skills come together. Shop small-batch jams, jellies, syrups, breads, baked goods, seasonal treats, and other homemade products inspired by our garden, local harvests, and family recipes. Each batch is made with care and offered in limited quantities.
[Visit The Kitchen]
The Garden
Follow along with what we are planting, growing, harvesting, and learning.Our garden shop may include seasonal produce, flowers, seeds, plant starts, herbs, dried goods, and other garden-inspired products as they become available.
[Explore The Garden]
Art & Photography Shop
Stories, Places, and Beauty Worth KeepingOur art and photography collection is inspired by country life, family, nature, animals, forgotten places, and the beauty found in ordinary moments.Browse photographic prints, artwork, seasonal collections, and other creative pieces designed to bring warmth, personality, and a little piece of the country into your home.
DIY Plans
Build It Yourself—
with a Better Plan
Our downloadable DIY plans are created for homeowners, homesteaders, and builders who want practical instructions without unnecessary confusion.Shop plans for chicken coops, runs, sheds, animal housing, garden structures, and other useful projects.Our goal is to help you save time, avoid common mistakes, and confidently build something that works for your property.
WHY CHOOSE US?
Family-Owned. Experience-Built.
The Parker Homestead is not a large company built around mass production. It is a family business built from years of hands-on experience.We use the same skills in our own daily lives that we offer to our customers. We build, repair, raise animals, hatch chicks, grow food, preserve harvests, photograph families, design projects, and solve problems as they arise. When you work with us or purchase something from our homestead, you are supporting a real family and the life we are continuing to build together.
What Matters to Us?
Quality
We believe things should be made carefully and built to serve a real purpose.
Honesty
We value straightforward communication, realistic expectations, and doing what we say we will do.
Functionality
Beautiful is important, but it also needs to work.
Creativity
We enjoy creating custom solutions instead of forcing every customer into the same design.
Family and Community
Our children are growing up alongside these businesses, learning responsibility, creativity, hard work, and the value of helping others.
The Parkers
The Family Behind the Homestead
We are the Parker family—a husband-and-wife team raising our children, building businesses, caring for animals, and creating a home rooted in hard work and a deep appreciation for country life.
Our days rarely fit into one category.
We may be working on a construction project, finishing a chicken coop, collecting eggs, checking an incubator, harvesting from the garden, making a batch of jelly, photographing a family, or sketching out the next building plan.
The Parker Homestead was created to bring all of those pieces together. This is more than a storefront. It is a look into the life we are building, the work we take pride in, and the things we hope to pass down to our children.
[Learn More About Our Family]
