diff --git a/src/constants.ts b/src/constants.ts
index 8672b1a12..bc0f8ee02 100644
--- a/src/constants.ts
+++ b/src/constants.ts
@@ -263,3 +263,6 @@ export const PAGINATION_OFFSET = 0;
 export const PAGINATION_LIMIT = 10;
 export const PAGINATION_COUNT = 0;
 export const SEARCH_INPUT = '';
+
+export const BLUEPRINTS_DIR =
+  '.local/share/cockpit/image-builder-frontend/blueprints';
diff --git a/src/mocks/cockpit.ts b/src/mocks/cockpit.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..289f8a61f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/mocks/cockpit.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+/* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/no-unused-vars */
+
+// TODO: maybe we should pull in the cockpit types here
+// and keep them in the project. Not ideal because it may
+// diverge, so we need to think about it.
+export interface UserInfo {
+  home: string;
+}
+
+export default {
+  user: (): Promise<UserInfo> => {
+    return new Promise((resolve) => {
+      resolve({
+        home: '',
+      });
+    });
+  },
+  file: (path: string) => {
+    return {
+      read: (): Promise<string> => {
+        return new Promise((resolve) => {
+          resolve('');
+        });
+      },
+      close: () => {},
+    };
+  },
+};
+
+export interface FileInfo {
+  entries?: Record<string, FileInfo>;
+}
+
+export const fsinfo = (
+  path: string,
+  attributes: (keyof FileInfo)[],
+  options: object
+): Promise<FileInfo> => {
+  return new Promise((resolve) => {
+    resolve({
+      entries: {},
+    });
+  });
+};
diff --git a/src/store/cockpitApi.ts b/src/store/cockpitApi.ts
index 6691c54eb..347839cbe 100644
--- a/src/store/cockpitApi.ts
+++ b/src/store/cockpitApi.ts
@@ -1,18 +1,32 @@
+import TOML from '@ltd/j-toml';
 import { createApi, fetchBaseQuery } from '@reduxjs/toolkit/query/react';
+import cockpit from 'cockpit';
+import { fsinfo } from 'fsinfo';
 
 import {
   GetArchitecturesApiResponse,
   GetArchitecturesApiArg,
   GetBlueprintsApiArg,
   GetBlueprintsApiResponse,
+  BlueprintItem,
 } from './imageBuilderApi';
 
+import { BLUEPRINTS_DIR } from '../constants';
+
 const emptyCockpitApi = createApi({
   reducerPath: 'cockpitApi',
   baseQuery: fetchBaseQuery({ baseUrl: '/api' }),
   endpoints: () => ({}),
 });
 
+const getBlueprintsPath = async () => {
+  const user = await cockpit.user();
+
+  // we will use the user's `.local` directory
+  // to save blueprints used for on-prem
+  return `${user.home}/${BLUEPRINTS_DIR}`;
+};
+
 export const cockpitApi = emptyCockpitApi.injectEndpoints({
   endpoints: (builder) => {
     return {
@@ -28,22 +42,50 @@ export const cockpitApi = emptyCockpitApi.injectEndpoints({
         GetBlueprintsApiResponse,
         GetBlueprintsApiArg
       >({
-        queryFn: () => {
-          // TODO: Add cockpit file api support for reading in blueprints.
-          // For now we're just hardcoding a dummy response
-          // so we can render an empty table.
-          return new Promise((resolve) => {
-            resolve({
+        queryFn: async () => {
+          try {
+            const path = await getBlueprintsPath();
+
+            // we probably don't need any more information other
+            // than the entries from the directory
+            const info = await fsinfo(path, ['entries'], {
+              superuser: 'try',
+            });
+
+            const entries = Object.entries(info?.entries || {});
+            const blueprints: BlueprintItem[] = await Promise.all(
+              entries.map(async ([filename]) => {
+                const file = cockpit.file(`${path}/${filename}`);
+
+                const contents = await file.read();
+                const parsed = TOML.parse(contents);
+                file.close();
+
+                // TODO: add other blueprint options
+                return {
+                  name: parsed.name as string,
+                  id: filename as string,
+                  version: parsed.version as number,
+                  description: parsed.description as string,
+                  last_modified_at: Date.now().toString(),
+                };
+              })
+            );
+
+            return {
               data: {
-                meta: { count: 0 },
+                meta: { count: blueprints.length },
                 links: {
+                  // TODO: figure out the pagination
                   first: '',
                   last: '',
                 },
-                data: [],
+                data: blueprints,
               },
-            });
-          });
+            };
+          } catch (error) {
+            return { error };
+          }
         },
       }),
     };
diff --git a/src/test/setup.ts b/src/test/setup.ts
index cb4d00fa6..bb74ebf8a 100644
--- a/src/test/setup.ts
+++ b/src/test/setup.ts
@@ -81,6 +81,28 @@ vi.mock('@unleash/proxy-client-react', () => ({
   }),
 }));
 
+vi.mock(import('cockpit'), async () => {
+  return {
+    user: () => {
+      new Promise((resolve) => {
+        resolve({
+          home: '/home/osbuild',
+        });
+      });
+    },
+  };
+});
+
+vi.mock(import('fsinfo'), async () => {
+  return {
+    fsinfo: () => {
+      new Promise((resolve) => {
+        resolve({});
+      });
+    },
+  };
+});
+
 // Remove DOM dump from the testing-library output
 configure({
   getElementError: (message: string) => {
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index 2d745d33b..71b024f5e 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -19,6 +19,14 @@
     "paths": {
       "*": [
         "./pkg/lib/*"
+      ],
+      "cockpit": [
+        "./src/mocks/cockpit.ts",
+        "./pkg/lib/cockpit.ts"
+      ],
+      "fsinfo": [
+        "./src/mocks/cockpit.ts",
+        "./pkg/lib/cockpit/fsinfo.ts"
       ]
     }
   }
diff --git a/vitest.config.ts b/vitest.config.ts
index 99ebe807d..c6bbf65a3 100644
--- a/vitest.config.ts
+++ b/vitest.config.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import react from '@vitejs/plugin-react';
+import path from 'path';
 
 const config = {
   plugins: [react()],
@@ -24,6 +25,10 @@ const config = {
   },
   resolve: {
     mainFields: ['module'],
+    alias: {
+      cockpit: path.resolve(__dirname, 'src/mocks/cockpit'),
+      fsinfo: path.resolve(__dirname, 'src/mocks/cockpit'),
+    },
   },
   esbuild: {
     loader: 'tsx',