Looking for the perfect homesteading gifts for the backyard farmer or homesteader on your list? Finding gifts for people who are looking for DIY on their own property can be challenging. Whether you’re looking for Christmas gifts for homesteaders or homesteading gifts for a birthday of special occasion, we’re here to help with the best homesteading gift ideas out there.
Below you can find fun homesteading gifts, practical backyard farming gifts, and plenty of other idea gifts for homesteaders.

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Gifts for the Backyard Garden
Give your homesteader a backyard garden gift – you can find suggestions below for practical or decorative gifts.
Metal Hummingbird
This decorative for metal hummingbird for the backyard gardener and nature lover makes the perfect gift.
Mason Bee House
This cute mason bee house will bring beneficial pollinators to your garden. It also an attractive garden decoration.
Garden Planner
Give the gift of garden planning this year with this simple garden planner. Thi has a sliding scale that makes it perfect for many different growing regions.
Herb Garden Kit
This kit is perfect for the backyard gardener and food lover who keeps an herb garden. This gift will help your gardener get a jump on the season and herbs make great additions to the garden and can be kept in pots in a small space.
Heirloom Seed Vault
Get 144 variety of seeds in this seed vault. This gives you the chance t o plant an incredible amount of fruits and vegetables.
Garden Dibble
A garden dibble is a fun and practical gardening tool for planting the perfect vegetable garden.
Practical Gifts for Homesteaders
Homesteaders tend to be practical people and they will appreciate a gift that helps them create a better backyard garden and home for backyard farm animals.
Soil pH Meter
This practical tool helps your homesteader or gardener check the soil moisture and pH.
Composter
This small composter lets your homesteader turn their own compost and build a healthier garden.
Seed Heating Pad
This practical gift will help your backyard gardener get a jump start of the growing season by getting started with seed starting with these seed heating pad.
Pruning Tool Set
This is an easy to use pruning set for pruning fruit trees and bushes. The set is sharp and comes with its own bag.
Gardening Gloves
These are practical and fun gardening gloves to protect your hands when you’re homesteading. These gloves make great homesteading gifts.
Gifts for Keeping Backyard Farm Animals
Choose fun or useful gifts for people who keep backyard farm animals.
Chicken Alphabet Bag
This is a practical bag that can be used to carry lunch, books, or more, all with cute chickens on the outside!
Chicken Xylophone
Give the gift of music to . . . your chickens. You read that right, this is a musical instrument to keep your chickens happy and entertained!
Egg Collecting Apron
This cute apron is the perfect way to collect the eggs each time you visit the chicken coop.
5 Rooster/Chicken Kitchen Tools
This is a cute homesteading gift for someone who loves backyard chickens. These chicken spoons and forks for the kitchen are practice and cute.
Chicken Dish Towel
This is a fun addition to the home for a chicken lover! This chicken dish towel is so cute and makes the perfect homesteading gift!
Chicken Coop Sign
This cute and funny sign for the chicken coop is a great gift and adds a little fun to the coop.
Goat Sign
Of course you need that many goats! Get this cute sign as a homesteading gift and add a little humor to your backyard farmers life!
Goat Wine Glasses
Love your goats while enjoying a glass of wine. This cute glass makes a great homesteading gift.
Goat Mug
This funny goat mug is a great gift for anyone who loves goats! The truth is, you can never have too many goats.
Bee Watering Station
This is the perfect gift for the bee lover. This beautiful bee watering station ensures that the local bees can get water.
Best Homesteading Books that Make Great Gifts
Homesteading books make great gifts for the backyard farmer in your life. You can also see more homesteading books here.
Looking for a free book to get started? Get your free copy on The Modern Homestead: A Guide to starting Your Journey
The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!
This was the first book I got when we started to backyard farm and it’s been a great reference over the years. This is just the first in a series of related books that dive deeper into different elements of homesteading.
Backyard Farming on an Acre More or Less
You don’t need tons of land to homestead, and this book outlines how to backyard farm on just an acre. There are lots of resources, but the best part of this book is the description and drawings of the overall backyard farm.
Mini- Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 acre
This is another great book that details how to backyard farm on a small amount of land. This book shares how to use your land carefully and will be a welcome addition to any homestead library.
Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living
This book is more focused on building homesteading skills in an urban environment. This book is more holistic and discussed building a homestead community.
The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing’s Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
This follows the life of Helen and Scott Nearing who leave the city and move to the country in Vermont and then Maine on a journey towards simple living. This is a fun and inspiring read!
Homestead Gifts for the Kitchen and Home
Homesteading doesn’t stop at the front door. Below you can find suggestion for homesteading gifts that can be used in the home and kitchen.
Hydroponics Growing System
The backyard farmer in your life will love this hydroponics system that allows them to grow food all year long right in their kitchen. Extend the growing season with this fun kit.
Mushroom Growing Kit
Mushrooms are fun to grow and easy to grow inside with this kit. Bring the garden inside with this kit.
Vintage Metal Tin Signs
This fun homesteading décor sign makes a great homesteading gift. Put it in your house or hang it in the barn.
Fermenting Kit
Fermenting is the practice of preserving food to make delicious food like Kimchi and Sauerkraut. This kit has a simply designed lid that fits onto the top of a mason jar making fermentation easy.
Herb Drying Rack
This rack makes drying herb easy and since it’s collapsible, it is easy to store and doesn’t take up too much room.
Herb Stripping Tool
This small little tool is perfect for stripping herbs in the kitchen for fast and clean food processing.
Homesteading Gifts for Relaxing After a Day of Work
Homesteading, gardening, and raising animals is hard work! These gift ideas are perfect for the end of the day to relieve hard working hands.
Working Hands Relief
Restorative cream helps gardeners and anyone who works outside keep their hands soft and comfortable.
Lotion for Gardeners
This lotion contains hydrating ceramides and antioxidant-rich vitamin e and smells delicious.
Earthly Garden Bath Bombs
This earthy garden bombs make great homesteading gifts and give the homesteader in your life the perfect excuse to relax at the end of the day.
Homesteading Gifts: Clothes
Cute, funny, or beautiful clothes make excellent homesteading gifts – see some fun ideas below.
Woman’s Cute Homesteading Shirt
This funny homesteading shirt is simple and make the perfect shirt to wear out or while doing all the work of homesteading.
Wide Brimmed Hat
Keep the sun off with this brimmed hat. It is lightweight and breathable, making it perfect for wearing on hot days.
Chicken Mama Hat
Show your chicken love with this baseball style hat. Great for keeping the sun off your face as you take care of tasks around the homestead.
Funny Homesteading Gift Ideas
Add in some humor with these funny homesteading gift ideas!
Funny Chicken Mug
Do you know a chicken whisperer? This mug is the perfect gifts for chicken lovers!
Screaming Goat
Who doesn’t need a screaming goat in their life. This funny homesteading gift has a button that screams when you push it!
Funny Farm Animal Art
This funny wall art is a great gift for homesteaders or farmer and will add some color and humor to the home.
Homesteading Gifts for Kids
Flower Painting Kit
Add a little beauty to the garden with this fun gardening kit for kids. This makes a fun gardening gift for kids.
Tool Kit for Kids
Get your young homesteader off the right start with this tool belt and basic tools. Kids can learn to work around your backyard farm with these kid sized tools.
Greenhouse Gardening Kit
Get your young gardener off to a good start with this greenhouse gardening kit.
Garden Tool Set
Get your little gardener off to a good start with these large garden tools. Even little helpers can help in the garden.
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