5 Life Lessons from the Great Depression
Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World
Melissa K Norris
4.8 • 978 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.
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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 |
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| 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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