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Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World

7 Things Our Great-Grandparents Did Better Than Us

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World

Melissa K Norris

Education, How To, Leisure, Home & Garden

4.8978 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

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,

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

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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