How to Plan Your Best Garden & Harvest for a Years Worth of Food
Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World
Melissa K Norris
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
How we determine which crops we plant each year and how to make sure we plant enough to provide us with a full year of that food. I take you step by step through our process, even if you've never grown your garden before and don't have an inventory of home preserved food to guide you.
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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. |
| 1:24.9 | You're listening to the pioneering today podcast where self-sufficiency is made easy. |
| 1:32.1 | I'm your host Melissa Kay Norris and I help teach families how to grow, |
| 1:37.0 | preserve, and cook their own food using old-fashioned skill sets and wisdom to create a natural self-sufficient home. |
| 1:45.0 | Welcome, this is episode number 124 and it's also the first episode of 2018. |
| 1:56.4 | We're gonna be talking about planning out |
| 2:00.3 | your homestead year and specifically in regards to planning what |
| 2:06.2 | crops you're going to be growing, harvesting, and preserving. So I thought it would be |
| 2:12.1 | really fun this year is to kind of take you |
| 2:14.9 | through the year how we do everything that we do because we raise all of our own meat, a good portion, at least 50% of our fruit, and a good |
| 2:26.3 | portion of our vegetables. And so I'm going to take you through season by |
| 2:30.9 | season and how we plan things on each of those different stages and how we do all of that on our |
| 2:37.0 | functioning homestead so then you can plug that into your circumstances and do the same thing. |
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