Aetheric Acres

Aetheric Acres · Colorado

A software studio
with dirt under its nails.

One maker's holding: independent apps and games, a forty-acre high-plains homestead, and a festival that gathers people on the land. Everything here is built by hand — and built to be owned, not rented.

Visit the homesteadSee what we're building

The holdings

Three ways of building
the same thing.

Code, soil, and ceremony look like different trades. They're one practice: take responsibility for the systems you live inside.

01

Software

A contemplative training app, a homestead management suite, a pixel-art strategy game — small, serious tools made by one developer with a decade in the craft.

Products 02

Land

Forty acres at 6,900 feet southeast of Denver: a dome greenhouse, swales feeding a young orchard, chickens, and a plan measured in decades — not quarters.

The homestead 03

Gathering

FreeFarm Fest — a music & arts festival hosted on the farm, two years running. Proof that people already come here to make things together.

FreeFarm Fest

Prefer systems you control over systems you depend on.

The land

Forty acres,
a hundred-year plan.

Since 2022 this high-plains parcel has been slowly turning into a place that can feed and power the people on it: a dome greenhouse for the short Zone 5a season, water-harvesting swales planted with fruit trees, a barn, a flock of chickens, and gardens that get a little less optional every year.

The long arc is bigger than one household — a self-sufficient place where more people can eventually live, grow, and build together. That's the work of decades, and it has already started.

Walk the land

From the workshop

Tools with a point of view.

Software made the way the farm is made: deliberately, for the long term, by hands that will still be maintaining it in ten years.

Esotrainer

In development

A trainer for intuition and contemplative practice — daily exercises from real traditions, and a feedback loop that actually tells you whether your inner sense is improving.

Homestead Suite

Early development

Farm management software being built on a working farm — Garden OS, Orchard OS, and Husbandry OS, dogfooded on these forty acres before anyone else touches it.

Aetheria

In development

A pixel-art real-time strategy game in the browser — every sprite drawn by code, every match bit-for-bit deterministic. Agrarian keepers versus ash-forge clans.

Every venture, with honest status badges →

The gathering

People already
gather here.

For two years running, FreeFarm Fest has turned the pasture into a stage: music, art, and a weekend of camp-out community on the homestead, produced with the friends at FreeForm Functions.

A place isn't sovereign because of its fences. It's sovereign because of what it can host.

About the fest

Hire the studio

Need a mobile app built by someone who ships?

Aetheric Acres takes a small number of consulting engagements — React Native & Expo product work, Firebase back ends, and healthcare integrations. Ten-plus years of experience, one accountable developer.

Consulting

Say hello

The gate's open.

Questions about the products, the land, the fest — or just want to compare greenhouse notes? One inbox, read by one person.

drew@aethericacres.com