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Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World

5 Life Lessons from the Great Depression

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World

Melissa K Norris

Education, How To, Leisure, Home & Garden

4.8978 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A lost historical canning recipe and life lessons from the Great Depression. Plus, a special invite to send in questions for the Q&A podcast with my father, who was raised during the Great Depression.

Transcript

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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

1:06.2

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

1:18.2

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

1:25.0

hello pioneering today podcast listeners to this is episode number 80 so today I

1:31.2

wanted to talk about one of my favorite things and judging by the number of

1:35.7

downloads and reader comments it's one of your favorite things too and I wanted to come

1:40.6

back to that and that is talking about the way the old timers did it during

1:45.8

the Great Depression, how they lived, how they made it through, and there's the values that

1:51.3

our great grandparents and those that were born and came through that time had and really valued.

1:57.5

And I'm fascinated with that time period.

2:01.0

I think it's amazing what our forefathers and four mothers were able to do.

2:06.7

Now don't get me wrong there's a lot that is really cool that we have available

2:12.4

to us now I mean like for instance I can

2:14.2

record this podcast and you can listen to it and be on the go so I'm not

2:18.6

discounting our modern lives because there's really a lot of cool things about it but there's a lot that

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