13 Tips to Work with the Land & Weather You Have
Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World
Melissa K Norris
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Learn how to overcome challenges in the land and weather you have to grow your own food. Melissa and Laurie Neverman from Common Sense Home share 13 tips for combating extremely cold springs, high winds, excessive rain, and drought conditions so nothing stops you from growing a productive vegetable garden on your homestead, with these easy and very actionable tips you'll be growing your own food no matter what Mother Nature throws at you.
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to learn how to use herbs medicinally and not only medicinally but also grow them, |
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| 0:40.0 | Each week we are going to pick one of those herbs and do a deep dive on how to grow that herb, |
| 0:47.8 | but more importantly, how to use it, including safety, and if you should use it or not if you are pregnant or breastfeeding. |
| 0:56.9 | We go through all of the cautions, the medicinal properties, and its uses. |
| 1:02.1 | So when you get done done you will have in your pocket and hopefully by |
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| 1:26.2 | If there's one thing I've learned about growing our own food, it is that you cannot control the weather. |
| 1:33.7 | And no one area is perfect for growing all things. |
| 1:39.9 | However, there are many workarounds and things you can do to raise more of your own food, |
| 1:47.1 | even with adverse weather, too cold of springs, too hot of summers, high winds, all the different things that can plague |
| 1:56.0 | gardeners. There are workarounds to making whatever environment you have |
| 2:02.3 | available to you right now, work to be able to grow as much |
| 2:07.1 | of your own food as possible. |
| 2:09.4 | Specifically, we're going to be going over 13 tips to work with the land and weather you have |
| 2:16.4 | to grow your own food on today's episode number 140 of the |
| 2:22.3 | pioneering today podcast. 140 of the Pioneering Today Podcast. |
| 2:24.0 | Welcome, I am your host, Melissa Kay Norris, |
| 2:27.0 | and here on the Pioneering Today Podcast, |
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