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Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World

7 Depression Era Tips to Stretch the Food Budget

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World

Melissa K Norris

Education, How To, Leisure, Home & Garden

4.8978 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2014

⏱️ 33 minutes

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These 7 tips and recipes from the Depression Era will help you stretch your food budget and serve easy tried and true recipes to your family from folks who lived through hard times. Like this? Pop over and leave us a review-->https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/melissaknorriss-podcast/id677542913

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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

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1:26.3

Hello pioneering today podcast listeners. I'm really excited to get into today's episode and we are continuing the trend with talking about

1:35.8

Depression-era tips and recipes to stretch your dollar and incorporate some more frugal mindsets and things into your home.

1:46.0

By far, the Depression era podcast episodes that we have been doing have been

1:51.0

listener favorites by far above and beyond anything else.

1:55.0

And one of the reasons I really love them is because it's allowed me to talk to people in my own family, get more of my family, heritage, and history, and you

2:07.0

guys have shared so much of that of your family's wisdom that has been passed down and tips with me. And so it's a way of

2:15.1

keeping family heritage is alive, being mine or yours. And I think that's really

2:20.4

important in this day and age is to pass down the things that we have

2:24.0

learned from the past generations. So I have really enjoyed all of the stories and

2:29.0

comments that you guys have left me and emailed me and commented on the blog. So thank you for that and I hope that

2:36.0

you will continue to do that when you listen to today's episode. And this is episode number

2:42.1

44 on the family. And this one I went and talked to my mom who was

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