Self-Reliance

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Self-Reliance

Water stored and rotated, a root cellar that keeps, crocks of kraut and pickles, and meat from field and stream — free tools to keep your family fed and watered through hard times.

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Store and Keep

Water Storage

Every jug, barrel and tank, how many days it lasts your household, rotation reminders, and rain-catchment and bleach calculators.

Track your water →

Root Cellar

What’s stored where, use-by dates from a storage guide, and warnings when it’s too warm, too cold or too damp.

Open the root cellar →

Fermentation

Kraut, kimchi, pickles and kombucha — salt calculators, ready-to-taste reminders and how to ferment safely.

Start a batch →

From Field and Stream

Hunting & Fishing Log

Game and fish with weights, tags and private places, and the meat straight into your freezer list.

Log a harvest →

Trap Line

Each trap you set, checked off every day, with catches going into the log.

Open the trap line →

Preparedness

Water and food storage by household size, and a checklist for being ready.

Plan your stores →

Prepared, Not Afraid

Joseph stored grain in the good years so that many lived through the famine. Laying up water, food and skills is not fear — it is stewardship, and it lets a family help its neighbors when hard times come. Start with water, then the cellar and the crock, and keep the freezer full from your own land. “The prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.” — Proverbs 22:3

Start with Water