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🗓️ 11 July 2019
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Learn how to design a cottage garden or pull elements of one into your own yard. Melissa interviews Carolyn Thomas of Homesteading Family for a close up look of creating a cottage garden with plants that have forgotten medicinal and edible properties. Learn how hollyhock can be used medicinally and some older plants that have wonderful properties to them. List of favorite plants, how to use them, as well as elements you should consider. Grab the lists and full blog post at https://melissaknorris.com/186
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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. |
1:25.6 | Hello and welcome to episode number 186 of the pioneering today podcast. today's episode is a really exciting one and I hope that you enjoy learning |
1:39.7 | this information as much as I did. We are going to be talking about herbs that you can grow not only |
1:47.9 | for their medicinal benefit, but we're totally going to be covering those, but also their beauty, so to use them in your landscaping, and as food, and putting all three of these together and what we are calling a kitchen garden. So in times of old, most |
2:07.0 | homes would have both a kitchen garden, so right outside the kitchen door, where they could easily and quickly access both things |
2:15.7 | for cooking and also to use in their natural medicine cabinets. |
2:20.4 | Then they would have the larger gardens that were your bigger crops that you were doing on a much larger scale further off on the property. |
2:28.5 | So today we're going to be focusing on |
2:33.0 | that feeds your family obviously is a wonderful beautiful place of beauty |
2:38.0 | and also you use medicinally but the cool thing is the plants that we are focusing on today are a lot of |
2:44.8 | those lesser known plants that many people over time don't even know that you can use as medicine. |
2:54.2 | So one of those plans, and it's actually the reason |
2:56.6 | that this whole entire episode was born, |
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