7 Self-sufficiency and Simple Living Lessons from the Amish

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

4.9 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Even without going Amish, we can glean a lot from their lifestyle to help us live more self-sufficient and simple with these 7 tips. Learn how one company has helped preserve the Amish way of life while coming full circle and offering Amish and homesteading tools to the public. Episode resources at https://melissaknorris.com/258 Go to lehmans.com/PIONEER from May 22 to June 30, 2020 to receive 10% off any order $50 or more. Enter code PIONEER at checkout.

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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.
1:25.2	Welcome to episode number 258. Today's episode is really fun and really dives into a number of topics.
1:37.0	We're going to be talking about living a simpler life, which is no big surprise for a podcast that is titled
1:44.2	Pioneering today or talks about using modern homesteading in those old-fashioned
1:48.4	tips and techniques to live in our modern lives but we're also going to be looking at how COVID-19 has
1:56.8	impacted our ability to get supplies and how a lot of the places that are providing these supplies and especially supplies that help us live this homesteading lifestyle.
2:07.6	So gardening supplies and in your kitchen supplies, especially supplies that don't take electricity or your home food
2:16.8	preservation supplies. So canning lids and bulk and canning jars. A lot of those different things, how the companies that provide them, how they're being
2:27.2	impacted by COVID-19 and kind of what you need to know about the ability to get these from them.
2:33.7	And then also we're talking about,
2:35.1	which is one of my favorite topics,
2:37.0	because it's on my bucket list,
2:38.6	is to go and visit either an old order Mennonite or an Amish community. I am fascinated, big surprise,
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