How It Works
Everything you need to know to get started with Homegrown.
For Parents
Browse & Pick a Lesson
All lessons are free and accessible without an account. Browse by subject area (money, history, critical thinking, food, systems, practical skills) or by your child's age. Each lesson shows estimated time, difficulty level, and age range.
Read It Together
Homegrown lessons aren't designed for kids to do alone on a screen. Sit with your child — or better yet, read it at the dinner table. The lessons are written for families, not classrooms.
Hit the Dinner Table Moment
Every lesson has one: a question, a revelation, or a challenge designed to spark a real conversation. This is the point. The lesson is the setup; the conversation is the education.
Do the Family Activity
Each lesson includes a hands-on activity you do together — away from screens. Build something, cook something, investigate something, take something apart. Knowledge that stays in the head doesn't change anything. Knowledge that moves to the hands does.
Track Progress (Optional)
Create a free family account to track which lessons each child has completed, save favourites, and see your family's learning journey over time. This isn't gamified — no points, no streaks, no leaderboards. Just a simple record of what you've explored together.
For Homeschool Groups & Co-ops
Homegrown works beautifully in group settings. Here's how:
- Create a Group — One parent creates a group and gets an invite code
- Invite Families — Share the code with families in your co-op
- Pick Courses Together — Choose which courses your group will work through
- Meet Weekly — Use our facilitation guides to run a session around someone's kitchen table
- Track Together — See how the whole group is progressing
Every lesson includes a printable discussion card — a single page you can print, hand around the table, and use to guide the conversation without any screen.
Ages & Levels
Lessons are grouped by age range:
- Ages 8–10: Foundation concepts, concrete examples, lots of hands-on activity
- Ages 10–14: Deeper analysis, more nuance, introduction to primary sources
- Ages 12–16: Advanced critical thinking, independent research, complex systems
These are guides, not gates. A curious 9-year-old might thrive on a 10–14 lesson. A 15-year-old new to the topic might prefer to start at the 10–14 level. You know your child better than any age label.
What You Won't Find Here
- No ads. Ever.
- No paywalls. Every lesson is free.
- No gamification. No points, badges, streaks, or leaderboards.
- No social features. No likes, comments, followers, or feeds.
- No tracking. We don't use analytics cookies or third-party trackers.
We built the tool we wanted to exist. If it doesn't exist in the current system, it's probably because the current system doesn't want it to.