If you want to learn how to use herbs medicinally and not only medicinally but also grow them,

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

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

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.

Each week we are going to pick one of those herbs and do a deep dive on how to grow that herb,

but more importantly, how to use it, including safety, and if you should use it or not if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.

We go through all of the cautions, the medicinal properties, and its uses.

So when you get done done you will have in your pocket and hopefully by

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

summer herb and make sure that you get registered. Summer school is in session and it has never been better.

Welcome to the Pioneering Today podcast. This is episode number 131 with me,

Melissa K. Norris, your host, where we teach families how to grow, preserve, and cook their own food using old-fashioned skill sets and wisdom to create a natural and self-sufficient home.

On today's episode, we are going to be sharing kind of the homesteading tips for beginners. Specifically nine transition tips from city life to becoming a homesteader.

Now this story is absolute proof that anyone can learn the skills to become self-sufficient and be a

modern home stator no matter where you live or where you're starting from.

Even if you consider yourself to be beyond the beginning stages

of homesteading, I still think that today's

episode is going to be valuable for you

and you're gonna want to listen to it.

The reason is it really shows that homesteading is truly a community

and how important it is for us to not get caught up in our failures and to make sure that we've got people

around us who understand this way of life, they understand why we want to do it, because a lot of people don't a lot of people are like why on earth do you want to grow all your own food why do you want to go through all that work of preserving and canning it when you can just go to the grocery store and buy it. So it's really important as we move into this way of life that

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