Surviving and Thriving: How to Create a Survival Garden That Feeds Your Family

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

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

4.9 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Have you ever heard of a “survival garden?” For some, this term evokes fear and a sense of doom and gloom… but in reality, survival gardens are simply what the majority of people grew in the backyard just a few generations ago. So what is a survival garden? What crops should be planted in one, and how do we start one ourselves? If you’ve asked yourself any of these questions, then this podcast episode is for you. For more information and any links mentioned in this episode, visit: melissaknorris.com/386.

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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.
1:31.1	Hey pioneers and welcome to episode number 386.
1:36.0	Today's episode we are going to be talking about survival gardening,
1:42.0	but I first want to define survival gardening and the importance of survival gardening and the importance of
1:49.2	survival gardening and the purpose of this episode. So first off, survival gardening is something that I think
1:59.6	of in the
2:05.0	episode and the blog post that will accompany that is it's a way to provide the majority or a large
2:10.0	portion of the food that your family is eating and in order to survive off of it.
2:17.0	And in a lot of today's modern society or today right now,
2:21.0	people will use the term survival garden or prepper garden that type of thing and it has like a negative
2:29.3	connotation for some folks or like oh no that sounds really pessimistic or it means things are
2:37.5	going to go really bad and so I have this survival garden and it can kind of get
2:41.1	wrapped up in this package of anxiety and panic and bad, like in a bad frame of mind.
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