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r/homestead vs r/gardening

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Whole-homestead life vs plant growing

r/homestead’s description spans ponds, barns, livestock, gardens, food preservation, hunting, tractors, permaculture, canning and more—self-sufficiency and country life. r/gardening is for guides, pictures and discussion about plants and their care.

Both have SubMouse pages (homestead about 3.6M, rank #282; gardening about 9.0M, rank #85) and list each other as related. gardening’s sample is image/gallery-led and busier (roughly 112 posts/day); homestead is more text-led (roughly 19).

Collected titles are short: homestead asks for on-topic, respectful posts, using tags, and bans shaming for animal processing. gardening bans advertising and pointless reposts. Bring livestock, preservation and land projects to homestead; bring plant ID, beds and growing questions to gardening. (gardening vs houseplants covers the indoor split.)

  • r/homestead: livestock, preservation, land and self-sufficiency; no shaming for animal processing (collected title).
  • r/gardening: plants and their care; image-heavy sample.
  • They list each other as related. Both have full SubMouse community pages.

Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-06.

r/homestead

homesteading, farming, gardening, self sufficiency and country life

Ponds, barns, livestock, gardens, food preservation, fishing, hunting, tractors, pigs, chickens, cattle, worms, 4H, permaculture, organic, grazing, canning, aquaculture, trees, woodland, farmers, agriculture, agronomy, …

Members
3.6M
7-day growth
+1K
Posts/day
18.7
Directory rank
#282
Created
Dec 21, 2010
Submissions
Text or links

Sample mix: text posts 50%, images 18%, galleries 18%

Topics: Homesteading

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • Keep posts on topic
  • Be respectful
  • Use reddit tags when you can!
  • No trolling (this inlcudes no shaming for animal processing)

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About this community: r/homestead (#282, about 3.6 million) covers homesteading topics listed in its description (livestock, gardens, preservation, tractors, bees, and more). Catalogue description: Ponds, barns, livestock, gardens, food preservation, fishing, hunting, tractors, pigs, chickens, cattle, worms, 4H, permaculture, organic, grazing, canning, aquaculture, trees, woodland, farmers, agriculture, agronomy, horticulture, wwoofers, …

r/gardening

Gardening, Plants, and Agriculture.

A place for the best guides, pictures, and discussions of all things related to plants and their care.

Members
9M
7-day growth
+2.1K
Posts/day
111.5
Directory rank
#85
Created
Mar 20, 2008
Submissions
Text or links

Sample mix: images 40%, galleries 36%, text posts 20%

Topics: Gardening, Houseplants

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • No Advertising or Self-promotion
  • No Reposting Unless it's for a Good Reason.

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About this community: r/gardening ranks #85 on SubMouse’s SFW Top list (about 9.0 million subscribers in the directory). Catalogue framing: A place for the best guides, pictures, and discussions of all things related to plants and their care. Moderation themes that shape the room include: No Advertising or Self-promotion; FAMILY-FRIENDLY! No Trolls in the Garden. No abusive or sexual content.; No Reposting Unless it's for a Good Reason..

Supported differences

Aspectr/homesteadr/gardening
Public focus (from each community’s public description) Ponds, barns, livestock, gardens, food preservation, fishing, hunting, tractors, pigs, chickens, cattle, worms, 4H, permaculture, organic, grazing, canning, aquaculture, trees, woodland, farmers, agriculture, agronomy, … A place for the best guides, pictures, and discussions of all things related to plants and their care.
Size
r/gardening is larger in our directory (about 2.5×).
 3.6M members 9M members
Posting activity (our sample) 18.7/day 111.5/day
Common post types in our sample text posts 50%, images 18%, galleries 18% images 40%, galleries 36%, text posts 20%
Topic tags on SubMouse Homesteading Gardening, Houseplants
Selected rule titles (short names we collected) Keep posts on topic; Be respectful; Use reddit tags when you can!; No trolling (this inlcudes no shaming for animal processing) No Advertising or Self-promotion; No Reposting Unless it's for a Good Reason.

What they share

  • Our directory lists each of these communities on the other’s related list.

Rules and tone we can verify

homestead: Keep posts on topic; Be respectful; Use reddit tags when you can; No trolling (including no shaming for animal processing). gardening: No Advertising or Self-promotion; No Reposting Unless it’s for a Good Reason.

Where this comparison comes from

Public descriptions, member counts and related links from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory. Short rule titles and activity samples collected for both. Short titles only.

Members and public descriptions come from SubMouse's safe-for-work directory (as of 2026-11-02 UTC); 7-day growth measured from 2026-10-26. Posts/day and post-type mixes appear when we have an activity sample. Rule lines are short titles, not the full sidebar. Directory rank is listing order — communities outside the current Top 100 open in the info tool instead of a full community page.

Comparisons we prepared

Hand-written explanations for pairs where the public descriptions and rules support a real distinction: