Hi, I’m Jason. I bought a property in Graham, Washington a few years back, and turning it into the place I actually wanted to live was always going to need more than weekends: raised bed garden, chicken coop, wildlife pond, shop, and the long tail of small fixes that come with owning land. At some point it made sense to step back from full-time product work and actually do it.
The timing turned out to be lucky. Around the same time the property work got serious, the ground was visibly shifting under product work itself. Agents, MCP, local models, the gap between “I have an idea” and “it runs” closing fast. I wanted to get my hands properly into it, not read about it from the sidelines. Suddenly I had time for both.
This blog is the log. The homestead side shows up as builds and projects: chicken coops, ponds, garden infrastructure, woodshop work. The AI side shows up as homelab projects, multi-agent systems, local model experiments, MCP servers, and the occasional reflection on product work I used to do at Tableau and Elastic, now that I have the distance to see it clearly.
The two halves are not as separate as they sound. The garden has a multi-agent assistant. The security cameras feed a pipeline into TimescaleDB. The chicken coop is on Home Assistant. The line between “homestead” and “AI lab” is mostly imaginary at this point.
Photography, music, and the occasional ATV ride round out the mix. Stick around. You might learn something, or you might just see what one person ships when they go all-in on their own projects for a while.
