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Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World

Edible & Medicinal Weeds Growing in Your Backyard

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World

Melissa K Norris

Education, How To, Leisure, Home & Garden

4.8978 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Learn how to use these edible & medicinal weeds growing in your backyard. How to harvest, prepare and use them in multiple dishes to lower your food bill (+ recipes) plus how to use these common weeds for natural medicine treatments. You'll never look at these "weeds" again, instead turn them into delicious meals and treats. For recipe links, resources and show notes go to https://melissaknorris.com/142

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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,

0:06.3

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.

1:25.6

Welcome to episode number 142 of the Pioneering Today podcast, where we are going to go into depth with four common weeds that almost

1:39.8

all of us have at least one or two if not all four of these growing in our backyard.

1:47.3

And we're going to be discussing how you take those weeds and one different ways to use them in your cooking to stretch out

1:55.9

that grocery budget and secondly how to use them medicinally how to preserve them how do you actually harvest them we're

2:06.8

not talking just one or two ways to use each of these you are are going to get a plethora of options, both on cooking-wise and recipes,

2:18.3

all the way to the medicinal and preserving them so that you have them for year-round use.

2:25.0

Sound good?

2:27.0

Now before we dive straight into today's episode and it's a goody let me tell you but I kind of teased you and

2:35.5

promised you the last couple of weeks some special things that you're going to hear

2:40.4

about first here on the podcast. Now today's episode I do have a

2:47.6

guest and she is part of the Modern Homesteading Summit for 2018, its first year that is coming up very, very, very

2:58.0

soon, including all the information that you're going to be needing in order to register because you are not gonna wanna miss it

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