Answer one thoughtful question at a time — in your own words, in your own voice. Tend & Tell shapes your memories into a beautiful printed book for the people you love.
Become a Founding Family Not ready yet? Start with our free printable, Ten Questions to Ask Before the Stories Are Gone. Already planting? Open your garden →The way a garden works, and the way a story does too.
Thoughtful questions about your life, one memory at a time. Type your answers, or tell them out loud at the kitchen table while someone you love types along. This is the season of abundance, not judgment — every memory is welcome.
Your gathered stories get careful editorial tending — smoothing the rough edges, drawing out the details worth keeping — while protecting the thing that matters most: they still sound like you.
Your stories become a real book — designed, printed, and bound — plus a digital edition your whole family can read and share, wherever they are.
Built by publishing people, not an algorithm with a template. Real editorial care, an elegant serif interior, a hardcover that belongs on the shelf next to the family Bible and the photo albums.
And your book belongs to your family, full stop — yours to read, share, and pass down forever.
Founding Family books carry a numbered colophon: "No. __ of 30 · First Planting, MMXXVI."
"Give it to your mother. She answers one question a week, in her own words. And by Christmas you're holding her whole life in your hands."— how one daughter explains it
Our first edition — the First Planting — is limited to thirty numbered family books. When the thirty are spoken for, it closes. Numbers are never reissued.