How to Keep Your House Cool in Summer Without Electricity
Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World
Melissa K Norris
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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How to keep your house cool in summer without electricity, especially during the hot months when you need to have your canner and stove going. I share 8 old-fashioned pioneer tips that still work and don't require electricity as well as a few modern ways that are worth it to help keep the homestead cool. Explore outdoor cooking & canning options, get links, resources and full articles at https://melissaknorris.com/148
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| 0:56.9 | We go through all of the cautions, the medicinal properties, and its uses. |
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| 1:25.8 | In today's episode, we are diving into how to keep your house cool in summer without electricity because when you are in full board preserving mode |
| 1:36.5 | aka a homesteader kitchen in summer it's a vastly different thing than the majority of mainstream society, |
| 1:45.6 | and it can be really hard when you are processing hundreds of jars of canned food |
| 1:51.6 | to keep your kitchen cool, |
| 1:54.6 | especially when you are like us |
| 1:57.4 | and you do not have air conditioning |
| 2:00.3 | or a swamp cooler. |
| 2:02.1 | So I'm gonna be sharing some old-fashioned pioneer waste and a few more |
| 2:06.0 | modern. But how to keep your house cool in summer without electricity is this episode which is number 148 of the |
| 2:16.9 | pioneering today podcast with me, Melissa K. Norris your host where we teach |
| 2:21.2 | families how to grow, preserve, and cook their own food using old-fashioned |
| 2:26.1 | skill sets and wisdom to create a natural self-sufficient home with or without the full-on homestead. |
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