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Pioneering Today

Self-Sufficiency vs. Community Sufficiency

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

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

4.9931 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

For years I have talked about how to become more self-sufficient, but that’s no longer what I’m teaching! Sure, there are still ways to become less reliant on the grocery store, or other stores for our well-being, but I’ve come to realize that focusing more on community sufficiency is the way to go for long-lasting change and greater “self-sufficiency”. Want to know more? For all of the show notes and links, visit https://melissaknorris.com/345.

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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.

1:25.4

Hey pioneers! Welcome to episode number 345 of the Pioneering Today podcast.

1:34.8

Now you can't see this because this is a podcast,

1:37.5

but I am recording the very first podcast

1:42.0

inside our brand new office space. I have for ever since the

1:48.8

pioneering today podcast started, been recording it in a corner of my kitchen because that has been my office space

1:55.5

has literally been like a two foot section corner of our kitchen for years and we

2:02.0

were able to do an addition on to the end of our house which includes an

2:08.3

office space for me that actually has windows I'm no longer stuck in the corner. I can look outside and see the

2:14.9

weather and the cows and I probably sound very, very excited and almost poetic and that is because I am

2:21.7

extremely excited. We also have a pantry

2:25.0

storage area so we added on a 10 by 20s room onto the end of our house and half of

2:31.6

it is my office space and the other half is our pantry storage.

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