Hey, pioneers, welcome to the pioneering today podcast. I'm Lyske Norris, your host and fifth

generation homesteader. Today we are talking about herbs, spring herbs specifically, what to grow,

what to use right now, and how this season is one of the best times of the year to start or expand

your home apothecary. And this one comes home because I had

both of my kids and my son is 21 years old and no longer lives at home and my daughter is still

at home. But both of them actually ended up with a cut on their hand. My son was on the palm and he works in construction.

So anytime you've got an open wound there, it's getting a lot of friction and has a lot of

opportunity for infection to set in. And then my daughter plays club volleyball. And that girl

goes all out. She's like a flying squirrel and will dive for balls

that I am like, oh my goodness. And so she ends up even with all of the guards, she ends up like

with, it's not rug burns because obviously on a gym floor, there's not a rug. But like literally

skin just gets scrape layers off, which of course does not feel very good.

And again, you've got that many layers off of skin and you're touching a volleyball that who

knows how many people have touched in a tournament time, there's a lot of germs at bay.

So they both had issues on their hands.

And both of them came and was like, hey, mom, where is your wound

healing sap? So what was so special about that to me, it was kind of like one of those general

reminders is it is now been over a decade that I have been making pretty much almost all of our

first aid and really our medicine

cabinet.

We actually have an apothecary and our medicine cabinet is full of homemade things or herb-based

things and that's our go-to.

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