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Roots opens straight into your homestead. Journals and tools work before the library download. • Today: eggs, what's due, and what's growing • Place: animals, plantings, pantry, and jobs • Egg chart, plus a season card you can share • Log a harvest on the planting, then into the pantry • Frost date and elevation from your location • Cited answers show the book's year • 575-book library, about 3.4 GB, when you choose it
575 homestead books + offline AI, plant & mushroom ID, 31 tools. No signal.
Roots is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting for any government entity, including USDA, the U.S. Army or the U.S. Navy. Your whole homestead — library, know-how, AI — works with the bars at zero. Roots puts a 575-book self-sufficiency library, an on-device AI that answers with real citations, camera ID for plants, creatures and mushrooms, and 31 homesteading tools in your pocket. It all runs on your device after a one-time download. No account, no ads, no tracking. ASK ANYTHING, GET CITED ANSWERS When do I start tomatoes? How much do I feed laying hens? How do I treat mites in a hive? Ask by voice or text and get a straight answer built ONLY from real homesteading, gardening, canning and livestock books, with tap-able citations to the exact pages. It knows your frost date, animals and recent harvests. English & Spanish. A LIBRARY FROM WHEN THIS WAS ORDINARY Every book is public domain or a US government work, with the source recorded per book. Most were written when a smallholding had no electricity and no store to run to: The Dollar Hen, Comstock’s How to Keep Bees, Practical Angora Goat Raising. Alongside them sit federal and Navy trade manuals on fencing, barns, wells, concrete and wiring an outbuilding. GOVERNMENT SOURCES Government works are reproduced as published; some are decades old. Official sources: • USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning: https://nifa.usda.gov/press-release/usdas-complete-guide-home-canning-available • USDA bulletins: https://www.nal.usda.gov/ • U.S. Army manuals: https://armypubs.army.mil/ • U.S. Navy manuals: https://www.netc.navy.mil/ • Power-outage food safety: https:/ www.foodsafety.gov/food-safety-charts/food-safety-during-power-outage POINT THE CAMERA — ID IN SECONDS • Plant ID — name what’s growing in your beds and pasture. • Creature ID — with clear venomous / hazard warnings. • Mushroom ID — on-device, with safety cautions. • Diagnose a Plant — pick the symptoms; Roots asks the library. • Use My Harvest — get ways to cook and preserve what you picked. YOUR FLOCK & HERD My Animals keeps a record for every bird and beast — breed, age, photo, notes. Log a breeding or set eggs and the due or hatch date fills itself in. Record a treatment and the Egg Log warns you during the withdrawal period. Link feed, vet bills and sales to an animal to see whether she pays for herself. Beekeepers get a hive log. SEED TO HARVEST Plantings follows every crop from sowing to pull-out and rolls harvest totals up per planting, so next winter you know which tomato actually produced. 31 HOMESTEAD TOOLS Planting Calendar · Canning Guide + altitude Timer · Succession Planner · Companion Planting · Crop Guides · Chicken Feed · Brooder & Incubation · Livestock Health · Fermentation Brine · Recipe Vault · Foraging Calendar · Compost · Rainwater · Gestation · Firewood · Bed Planner · Sun Mapper · Moon Phase · level, ruler and more. JOURNALS THAT REMEMBER Grow Journal, Harvest, Egg, Rain, Canning and Money Logs, plus a Seed & Pantry Inventory. A Season Report totals your year automatically. Export as CSV, or back everything up, photos included. COMPANION MODE Planting reminders, frost alerts the evening before a freeze, a barometer storm warning with no signal, a 12-month almanac and a home-screen widget. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Photos, questions and journals never leave your phone. Roots goes online only for the one-time library download and, if you use it, the weather forecast for the spot you choose. YEARLY OR YOURS FOREVER Start with a 7-day free trial, then keep everything for $19.99/year — or own it forever with a single $79 lifetime unlock. The download is about 3.4 GB (Wi-Fi recommended), then it runs fully offline