Growing Herbs for the Kitchen
Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World
Melissa K Norris
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2017
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Growing herbs for the kitchen is a great way to stock both your spice and natural medicine cabinet without having to buy them from the store. I share our 5 favorite best herbs to grow in pots when creating your kitchen herb garden.
Plus, 2 bonus early spring time wild edibles you can forage for both food and medicinal purposes!
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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 |
| 0:27.6 | it is 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. |
| 1:26.7 | Welcome on today's episode we're going to be talking strategies and |
| 1:31.0 | creative ways that can help you supplement what you've got in your home for |
| 1:36.1 | groceries and some ways to do it without having to grow or plant anything, which means you might not even have to worry about |
| 1:44.5 | having your own land to finding some of this food and the second way is |
| 1:48.9 | putting in some crops that serve two |
| 1:54.0 | you're going to be wanting to put in that serve two purposes. |
| 1:58.0 | Not only do they help you with your food bill, but they also can be used to build up |
| 2:02.2 | a natural medicine cabinet. |
| 2:04.8 | I want to welcome you to today's show. |
| 2:06.6 | This is episode number 105 of the pioneering today |
| 2:09.7 | podcast with me, Melissa K Norris, your host, where we are inspiring your faith and your pioneer roots. |
| 2:17.0 | While I am a huge advocate of growing your own food, we raise all of our own meat. So we have our own beef cattle, we raise |
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