diff --git a/src/store/cockpitApi.ts b/src/store/cockpitApi.ts
index 6691c54ebc..9f6f85e1d3 100644
--- a/src/store/cockpitApi.ts
+++ b/src/store/cockpitApi.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
 import { createApi, fetchBaseQuery } from '@reduxjs/toolkit/query/react';
+import TOML from '@ltd/j-toml';
+
+import cockpit from 'cockpit';
+import { fsinfo } from 'cockpit/fsinfo';
 
 import {
   GetArchitecturesApiResponse,
   GetArchitecturesApiArg,
   GetBlueprintsApiArg,
   GetBlueprintsApiResponse,
+  BlueprintItem,
 } from './imageBuilderApi';
 
 const emptyCockpitApi = createApi({
@@ -28,22 +33,58 @@ 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 {
+            if (!cockpit) {
+              throw new Error('Cockpit API is not available');
+            }
+
+            const user = await cockpit.user();
+
+            // we will use the user's `.local` directory
+            // to save blueprints used for on-prem
+            // TODO: remove the hardcode
+            const path = `${user.home}/.local/share/cockpit/image-builder-frontend/blueprints`;
+
+            // we probably don't need any more information other
+            // than the entries from the directory
+            const info = await fsinfo(path, ['entries'], {
+              superuser: 'try',
+            });
+
+            const entries = Object.entries(info?.entries || {});
+            const blueprints: BlueprintItem[] = await Promise.all(
+              entries.map(async ([filename, _]) => {
+                const file = cockpit.file(`${path}/${filename}`);
+
+                const contents = await file.read();
+                const parsed = TOML.parse(contents);
+                file.close();
+
+                return {
+                  name: parsed.name as string,
+                  id: parsed.version 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: error.message || 'Unknown error occurred' };
+          }
         },
       }),
     };