Herbs Every Family Should Have Stocked Before Summer Hits | Episode 510
Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World
Melissa K Norris
4.8 • 974 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Summer means more time outside… and more sunburns, bug bites, bee stings, scrapes, and itchy skin. In today's episode, I'm sharing the herbal remedies for summer that I always keep stocked in our home apothecary before we need them.
These are the natural remedies I personally reach for first when it comes to:
🌿 Sunburn relief
🦟 Mosquito bites & itchy skin
🐝 Bee stings & wasp stings
🩹 Cuts, scrapes & wound healing
💜 Bruises & sore tissue
We're talking about practical herbalism you can actually use in everyday life with simple remedies like lavender, aloe vera, plantain, calendula, yarrow, chamomile, arnica, and more.
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RESOURCES MENTIONED:
🌞 Earthley Sun Shield: https://www.earthley.com/products/sun-shield
🦟 Earthley Pest Aside: https://www.earthley.com/products/pest-aside
🩹 Wound Healing Salve: https://melissaknorris.com/homemade-wound-healing-salve-recipe/
🌿 Lavender Essential Oil (and roller bottles): https://melissaknorris.com/lemon-lavender-peppermint-essential-oils
📖 Verse of the Week: Matthew 13:43
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https://melissaknorris.com/510
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, pioneers. Welcome to the Pioneering Today podcast. Today's episode, we're talking about the summer herbs that I reach for first. |
| 0:13.5 | All of the things that come with the summer months from sunburn, bug bites, sting, scrapes, all of those types of things. And these are the things |
| 0:24.8 | that are a must have before the moment strikes, meaning you want to make sure that you've |
| 0:32.0 | already got them on hand or you know what it is that you need to be reaching for when it comes |
| 0:37.2 | to each one of these things. |
| 0:39.4 | Because as we roll into the summer months, we are outside, I feel like, Hallelujah, amen, |
| 0:45.8 | a lot more than we normally are in the winter months. And the days are longer, especially if you live |
| 0:53.7 | in the north. |
| 0:55.0 | By the time we hit full on summer, it stays daylight out until about 10 o'clock at night. |
| 1:01.0 | And day in the morning, you know, we're getting daylight by five. |
| 1:07.0 | So that's a really long spans of time, which means more exposure to, of course, |
| 1:12.3 | things like bugs. Of course, the sun for sunburns. And we're physically usually doing more, |
| 1:18.5 | too. There's in the early part of summer, you know, there's all of the planting. And then we go |
| 1:24.4 | into harvest time and weeding and maintaining, though definitely have tips in the garden |
| 1:30.6 | of using heavy mulch and things to help keep the weed part, at least down and not be so much. |
| 1:36.6 | And we're just enjoying being outside. There's swimming, going to the lake in the creek. |
| 1:42.6 | There's just all kinds of things. Hiking in, you know, outdoor fires when we don't have burn bands on. |
| 1:50.3 | But there's campfires, which of course is exposure to heat, so there can be burns there and that type of thing. |
| 1:55.5 | But the point is, barefoot stepping on things, summertime usually means a little bit more of your basic first |
| 2:04.4 | day. And knowing how to do that with herbs and natural remedies, that is a little bit newer for |
| 2:11.8 | a lot of people, but summer is an excellent time to jump in. And I am not interested in the theoretical herbalism. |
| 2:22.0 | I want to share with you what's in my cabinet when my kids or adults come inside because something |
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