5 Gardening Myths on Raising a Years Worth of Food
Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World
Melissa K Norris
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Learn the 5 most common myths in regards to growing a vegetable garden, but especially in regards to raising a years worth of food. I share the exact size of our vegetable garden, how much hands on time we spend in the garden, and how we manage everything in the business of harvest and growing time in the middle of summer.
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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, |
| 0:06.4 | 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 |
| 0:16.2 | 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 |
| 0:28.2 | 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. |
| 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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| 1:25.7 | Five myths about raising your own food. Specifically, when your |
| 1:33.0 | food to take you through an entire year. |
| 1:38.0 | Welcome to episode number 136 of the pioneering today |
| 1:42.0 | podcast with me your host, Melissa Kainora. of the old-fashioned skill sets and wisdom to create a natural self-sufficient home with or without the full-on homestead. |
| 2:00.0 | We're going to kind of be unwrapping gardening mess. |
| 2:05.0 | When it comes to gardening and raising your own food, |
| 2:08.4 | you're going to find almost everyone that you talk to |
| 2:11.9 | has an opinion, and most of the time they love to share it |
| 2:15.4 | which can be good or bad depending upon who is giving the advice kind of true in |
| 2:21.7 | all areas of life, right? So just like anything, you have to take advice with a grain of salt. You have to decide what is going to work for you and your garden or your homestead right now. |
| 2:37.6 | For this year, this growing season, exactly where you are. |
| 2:43.0 | Personally, I am a huge fan of testing things |
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