What is a Working Bee & How it's Relevant in Our Lives Today

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

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

4.9 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode of the Pioneering Today Podcast is a special one with a local friend of mine, Andrea. Andrea is co-host of the Ancestral Kitchen Podcast and is shedding light on a very interesting topic of a “working bee.” In today’s episode, she’s sharing what a working bee is, how it can be different based on whatever your particular interests or needs, and how they are extremely relevant and needed in today’s day and age. Have a listen because I think you’re going to find this episode very encouraging and inspiring. Maybe you’ll start a working bee of your own? For more information and any links mentioned in this episode, visit melissaknorris.com/400.

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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. Hey pioneers. Welcome to episode number 400. Today's episode is one that I am really
1:36.9	excited about that actually ended up talking about some elements that I wasn't expecting but I think are really needed.
1:46.2	So we are sharing about today and that is doing working bees and no I am not talking about a type of like Mason Bee or a bee as an
1:56.5	actual bee hives. But working bees where we come together to share the workload and also share the bounty, but doing it
2:10.0	communally. And this is something that historically is how many, many villages, towns, groups of people did things. When we look at an Amish barn raising, when you look at
2:23.6	an Amish barn raising when you look at quilting bees, lots and lots of instances, but I
2:26.7	think in today's at least Western society, this is something that I haven't
2:32.0	really seen witnessed very much in my personal upbringing.
2:38.8	Like sometimes my aunt would come over and my mom and my aunt would cook dinner together but that was really very rare and
2:46.6	it certainly wasn't a larger group of women who were really coming together and
2:51.4	help one another that type of a thing.
2:54.6	And I think even more so in the society now,
2:59.0	especially within our homesteading community
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