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 with me, Melissa K. Norris, where we inspire

your faith and pioneer roots with old-fashioned wisdom and skill sets in a modern world.

Today's episode is all about making your own homemade soap and specifically using all natural ingredients including the colorants that you use for your soap.

One of the things that I have found on my own journey within homesteading and living

a more back to basics and natural life is not only does it come down to the foods that we

eat but also the things that we put on our

bodies and that we use in our home and what I find amazing when we look back at

the pioneers is many of them almost everything that they used in their

homes and that they ate came from their own land including their own soap so way way back in own

so way way back in the day

they would actually make their own lie water from the wood ashes

which could be a very dangerous practice

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