If you want to learn how to use herbs medicinally and not only medicinally but also grow them,

I can think of little else that gets me excited as knowing I can literally grow our medicine right outside our back door, then you, my friend, are going to want to make

sure that you are registered and signed up for our herbal summer series. This is completely free, though you definitely could charge for it because it is

packed with information. Once you sign up starting in August, every week you are going to get an email from me going over my top 10 favorite herbs.

Each week we are going to pick one of those herbs and do a deep dive on how to grow that herb,

but more importantly, how to use it, including safety, and if you should use it or not if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.

We go through all of the cautions, the medicinal properties, and its uses.

So when you get done done you will have in your pocket and hopefully by

that point in your medicine cabinet my favorite top 10 herbs to always have at the ready. Go to Melissa K Norris.com forward slash

summer herb and make sure that you get registered. Summer school is in session and it has never been better.

Hello, pioneering today podcast listeners. So on today's episode we are going to be talking

about traditional jam making the old fashioned way part two in this

series and this is going to be more on troubleshooting tips and so making

homemade jam and jelly at home is something I think every homesteader, every home really, not just homesteader, should know how to do.

It helps preserve our fruit for year-round eating, doesn't contain high fructose corn syrup or other icky chemical preservatives that some of the store-bop varieties do.

And it's frugal and this is especially true when you grow the fruit yourself.

And most importantly it plain

tastes amazing. There is nothing as good as homemade jam and jelly because as

much as I love making things healthy, traditional, and frugally at home and from

scratch if it doesn't taste good then no one is going to want to eat it and that

kind of defeats the purpose right at least it does at my house because if it

doesn't taste good then I'm not going to get my

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