7 Things Our Great-Grandparents Did Better Than Us
Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World
Melissa K Norris
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Find out these 7 things our great-grandparents did better than us and what steps we need to take to bring these back. Plus, a free 14 Day Eat from Your Food Storage/Preparedness Challenge!
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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, |
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| 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. |
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| 1:25.2 | Hello, pioneering today podcast listeners. So on today's episode, which is number 68, |
| 1:32.2 | we are going to be talking about six things and actually it's |
| 1:35.8 | going to be seven that our great grandparents did better than us. So you are |
| 1:41.1 | listening to the pioneering today podcast with me, Melissa K Norris, where I inspire your faith and your pioneer roots. |
| 1:48.0 | So I just have to tell you guys that I am fighting a bit of a cold, so I have my lovely hot cup of tea here that has echinacea and |
| 1:56.2 | licorice root and all kinds of wonderful things brewing in it. |
| 1:59.1 | So I will do my very very best not to cough in your ears but just before warned. So in today's |
| 2:06.4 | episode what I want to talk about is as advanced and modern as we would like to |
| 2:12.2 | think that we are in society. I feel that in a lot of ways or |
| 2:17.1 | some ways that we're kind of worse off than our great grandparents are. We may have more technology and I'm not saying that I'm not |
| 2:25.0 | grateful for that. Obviously this is a podcast and I have a website which uses a |
| 2:31.0 | lot of technology in the internet so I am grateful for some of it but |
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