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.

Keeping a family milk cow or having a home dairy on the homestead is something I have long considered because grass-fed organic raw milk at the

store and this depends on where you live in some states you can't even legally purchase raw milk.

Now we live in Washington state where you can purchase raw milk but it's harder to

find a lot of grocery stores don't carry it so I have to travel quite a ways to a local

co-op in order to find raw milk and you're also going to be paying more for that wonderfulness. So a gallon of organic grass-fed

raw milk where I live goes about 12 bucks a gallon. And I can get regular organic grass fed that pasteurized

milk that is non homogenized so it still has the cream on the top. I can get that at

about seven bucks a gallon. But I have to tell you dreams of cream farmers cheese cream cheese buttermilk glass

jars of creamy white milk lined up on the counter all from my own barnyard.

Okay, that is kind of the stuff a homesteader's dreams are made of.

But we have not yet embarked on this venture. We do raise all of our own meat so we have a

herd of beef cattle which you'll hear more about as we get into today's episode.

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