Off Grid Living - What You Need to Know Before Starting

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

4.9 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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What it's really like to live off grid, tips you can take and use now, even if you're not off grid, and if you're planning to go that way, what you need to know before starting. Melissa interviews Doug & Stacy, a couple of self-proclaimed city slickers, who moved completely off-grid eight years ago. What the transition has been like, what they've learned (and wouldn't do again) and more! Check out the resources for fermenting tutorials/recipe, pressure canning, monthly seasonal garden planting guide and more in the full blog post here https://melissaknorris.com/183

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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.
1:25.7	You are listening to episode number 183 of Pioneering Today podcast.
1:30.9	On today's episode, we're going to be talking about living off-grid.
1:39.5	So making the move to no running water and no electricity, at least not from like our public water
1:48.0	system, public electric system, public utilities, all of that in really living, going back in time but doing it in modern
1:56.3	day to an off-grid homestead, much like the pioneers did.
2:01.5	Now don't worry, even if you are not of the mind you're like you know I think
2:06.2	it sounds awesome but I'm not in a place and it might not be a desire of yours to go that radical or to go completely off-grade but as you're going to discover as
2:15.6	you listen to today's episode there's some really great things that we can
2:21.0	glean from that way of life and implement even if we're not going off
2:26.2	grid. So if you still have electricity, you have running water, there's definitely some
2:31.1	lessons from today's episode that you're going to take away and get value from that can still apply.
2:37.2	And of course, if that's something that really interests you, then you are going to love today's episode. Let me officially welcome you to the
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