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Pioneering Today

Avoid Overwhelm - Choosing What’s Right for Your Homestead

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

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

4.9931 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Today’s podcast is a coaching call with Pioneering Today Academy member Stephanie Hester-Rodriguiz. She is moving to a new homestead property and looking for tips for what to do first and how to avoid overwhelm why trying to “do it all” at once. I’m sharing my best time-saving tips, how to avoid costly mistakes, and how to keep moving forward even when you don’t have the perfect plan laid out. For all of the show notes and links, visit https://melissaknorris.com/336.

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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

Hey there pioneers welcome to episode number 336.

1:31.2

Today's episode we are going to be talking about how to choose what to get

1:40.9

started with when you are starting a new homestead?

1:45.0

What's some different criteria that you can use to know what is the best place to start for you?

1:51.0

And while this is one of our coaching sessions and it's someone who is

1:55.3

starting a brand new homestead this actually can apply to if you are brand new to homesteading

2:01.3

or if you are like myself looking to add the next

2:06.4

thing to the homestead because one of the things I have realized with being

2:11.2

both the fifth generation homesteader as well as my husband

2:14.8

and I have been homesteading I would say very dedicatedly really serious for 13 years

2:20.9

though we were doing a lot of elements even prior to that for over how many years have we been married now coming on 23 years

2:28.0

But even with that much time underneath our belt there are still things on my home setting bucket list that I haven't done yet or I haven't gotten to do as much or at the level that I would like to do.

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