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Featured repos, events, challenges, and resources for the LFM community.

Repo of the Month

Isaac

Isaac is a self-hosted homestead management dashboard that runs on a Raspberry Pi. It tracks plants, animals, equipment, vehicles, household budgets, and farm production from a single web interface. The entire system runs on your local network with a SQLite database on disk. No cloud accounts, no subscriptions, no data leaving your property.

Technical independence applied to homesteading, one of LFHI's six training areas. The author is a penetration tester at Coalfire, and it shows. Encrypted storage at rest, role-based access control, audit logging, and zero-port-forwarding remote access via Tailscale or Cloudflare Tunnel. It runs on the same Pi hardware the community already uses and supports fully local AI through Ollama. No API keys required, no data sent to third parties.

Event of the Month

LFM on Monero

Thursday, March 19 at 2000 EST · Online (details TBD)

LFM has used Monero as its primary currency since 2024. This presentation covers why we moved away from traditional payment processors, how we set up wallets for daily use, how we accept payments for print volumes and services, and what operational patterns we have adopted. Financial independence is not theoretical at LFM. It is how we operate. If you want to understand how a small organization runs on privacy-preserving currency without banks, this is the session.

Community Challenge

March Challenge: CARVER Assessment

Select one key building or piece of critical infrastructure in your community and conduct a CARVER assessment. CARVER is a target analysis methodology from U.S. Army Special Forces (FM 34-36) that scores targets across six criteria: Criticality, Accessibility, Recuperability, Vulnerability, Effect, and Recognizability. Used defensively, it identifies which assets in your area are most critical and most vulnerable, allowing you to prioritize protection and preparedness planning. The worksheet below includes the full how-to, scoring rubric, and matrix.

Post your completed assessment in Discord #challenges Download Worksheet (PDF)

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FAQ

Where do I start?

Read the Foundation document. It covers principles, training areas, and chapter structure.

How do I get involved?

Visit Get Involved to start or join a chapter in your area.

What is the Homefront Initiative?

A community framework for local chapters focused on emergency medicine, communications, marksmanship, physical readiness, homesteading, and technical independence. Details at lightfighterhomefront.org.

How do I contribute to LFM projects?

See Contribute for article and report submissions. Code contributions go through GitHub.