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PODCAST

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World

Melissa K Norris

Pioneering Today is all about getting back to basics, simple living, and self-sufficiency with old-fashioned skills and wisdom in a modern world. With heirloom gardening, canning, preserving the harvest, from scratch cooking, raising your own food, including livestock (backyard chickens, pigs, and cattle), natural medicine, herbs, DIY like soap making along with living a simple self-sufficient life, no matter where you live. Hosted by 5th generation homesteader, Melissa K. Norris, author of The

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28:08

Home Food Preservation

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern... ·

2018/06/29

Feel pressed for time but you don't want any food to go to waste? Then put these 8 tips to come up with your customized preserving plan for a year's worth of food, including our FREE preserving plan charts you can use year after year to put your plan into place to make sure you have the items most important to your family preserved for the year. Learn which foods can be saved to preserve until later (and why I actually prefer this route) and how to determine which ones you need to get on pronto, and

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16:34

Time Saving Gardening Tips

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern... ·

2018/06/14

Get these tips to help you save time, increase the health of your plants- healthier plants equal larger harvests, and cut back on disease. Learn my best tips for your tomatoes and my 4 tips to save time and how to deal with the plague of almost every gardener, weeds. For the resources, links and full blog post go to https://melissaknorris.com/146

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55:47

Fermentation for Health Benefits

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern... ·

2018/06/08

Fermentation for health benefits and food preservation. Learn how the process of fermentation changes food for increased health benefits. What you need to know about storing your fermented foods, when fermented foods have gone bad, the best recipes and foods to start with and tips for getting your family and kids to enjoy and eat fermented foods. Get the resources, links and full blog post at https://melissaknorris.com/145

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28:58

Keeping a Family Milk Cow

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern... ·

2018/05/31

Everything you need to know about keeping a family milk cow, how to avoid milking twice a day, how much milk you'll get, how to use up all the milk and more. Join myself and Jill, one of the presenters in this year's 2018 Modern Homesteading Summit, make sure you go to the blog post here to snag the link to sign up for the Summit and get all the links at https://melissaknorris.com/144

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33:09

Tips for Homesteading Off-Grid

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern... ·

2018/05/23

Learn how one family is using solar power to live off grid in a one room cabin without running water or a refrigerator, just like the pioneer families of old, and what tips you can glean from them when it comes to food preservation and creating your dream homestead. Full blog post at https://melissaknorris.com/143

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38:24

Edible & Medicinal Weeds Growing in Your Backyard

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern... ·

2018/05/17

Learn how to use these edible & medicinal weeds growing in your backyard. How to harvest, prepare and use them in multiple dishes to lower your food bill (+ recipes) plus how to use these common weeds for natural medicine treatments. You'll never look at these "weeds" again, instead turn them into delicious meals and treats. For recipe links, resources and show notes go to https://melissaknorris.com/142

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35:35

14 Homestead Kid's Kitchen Tips

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern... ·

2018/05/10

Learn how use these 14 tips homestead kitchen tips to get your kid's helping in the kitchen for stress free meal times, or as close to stress free as you can get. No matter if your kids are toddlers or teenagers, these basic kitchen skills and meal prep tips will help them (or any adult) make the most of their time in the kitchen providing healthy and whole food recipes for themselves and their family. We even break down age appropriate skills for kids. For links and resources go to

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38:46

13 Tips to Work with the Land & Weather You Have

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern... ·

2018/05/04

Learn how to overcome challenges in the land and weather you have to grow your own food. Melissa and Laurie Neverman from Common Sense Home share 13 tips for combating extremely cold springs, high winds, excessive rain, and drought conditions so nothing stops you from growing a productive vegetable garden on your homestead, with these easy and very actionable tips you'll be growing your own food no matter what Mother Nature throws at you. Grab links and resources at the full blog post here

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29:55

Using Chickens in the Garden

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern... ·

2018/04/27

Using chickens in your garden is the perfect way to get the most use out of your livestock and your crops, but there's 13 things you need to know for the safety of your chickens and to ensure you get the fruits and vegetables, and not the chickens, or worse yet, they destroy the plants. For the all the resources and show notes go to https://melissaknorris.com/139

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35:27

12 Tips to Declutter & Organize Your Homestead

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern... ·

2018/04/20

Learn these 12 tips that help you declutter and organize your homestead kitchen. How I've went from getting things in order and then finding it a total mess again within just a few days (or hours) to keeping it tidy. Learn how I took the wisdom from 100 years ago to make it work for the modern homestead kitchen, laundry, and cleaning so we can spend less time cleaning and doing more of those homestead projects we love with our family. Get all the tips and resources for this episode at

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42:11

Natural Homemade Cleaner Recipes

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern... ·

2018/04/14

Grab my spring cleaning tips & hacks on how to spring clean your homestead (aka house) pioneer style. My favorite homemade cleaning recipes, room guide, and when I do purchase cleaning things from the store, my favorites. Tips and inspiration for having a sparkling house done homestead style. For show notes, recipes, and links go here melissaknorris.com/137

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28:58

5 Gardening Myths on Raising a Years Worth of Food

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern... ·

2018/03/30

Learn the 5 most common myths in regards to growing a vegetable garden, but especially in regards to raising a years worth of food. I share the exact size of our vegetable garden, how much hands on time we spend in the garden, and how we manage everything in the business of harvest and growing time in the middle of summer. Get the resources and links at https://melissaknorris.com/136

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33:09

How to Test Soil Ph

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern... ·

2018/03/23

Learn how and why it's important to test your soil ph when looking to grow healthy plants that give you the biggest harvest (because that's what healthy plant do). Methods for soil testing, what the tests mean, which plants grow best in acidic and alkaline soil, and how to amend your soil, when you should and what you need to know to keep your soil in tip top shape (aka what mistakes to avoid) when creating the best soil you can for your pasture, garden, fruit trees and bushes. For full blog post

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30:42

6 Natural Fertilizers to Improve Garden Soil

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern... ·

2018/03/16

6 natural ways to test and fertilize your garden soil now, so it's in the best shape it can be for healthier plants and larger harvests. What you need to know about soil amendments and which is best for your soil.

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34:23

Best Real Food & Food Storage Deals from Unlikely...

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern... ·

2018/03/09

My favorite sources for the best deals on real food and food storage when you're not able to grow it yourself. How I shop without coupons to build our food storage up with real food items we use on a daily basis, when I can't get it from farmers market or local source. Includes full lists of each item and how you can steal my strategies to save you time and money! Grab the lists and links at Episode #133 Best Real Food & Food Storage Deals from Unlikely Sources

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41:51

Perennial Plants for Less Hands on Time Food Production

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern... ·

2018/03/02

Learn how to incorporate perennial plants for less hands on time food production on your homestead. What you need to know about planting perennials, their yearly care, using them for permaculture, pruning, fertilization, and how to grow them even if you don't have any acreage or yard space of your own. Plus, how to get a jump start on your home orchard and berries even if you're renting or not in your permanent home yet. Also, what you need to know about the first years of your perennial plant's

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41:03

Homesteading for Beginners

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern... ·

2018/02/23

Why you shouldn't wait for the perfect time to start your homesteading dreams and goals. How to work with what you have right now. Even if you're in the city, how to begin homesteading now and how to transition from the city to your homestead. Learn why having a community is so important and how to move past discouragement.

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35:36

The Ultimate Seed Starting Guide

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern... ·

2018/02/16

Everything you need to know about starting seeds at home, when to start them for your area, which seeds to start indoors and which ones you shouldn't. Plus get our FREE seed starting blueprint and chart. Includes 5 mistakes homesteaders and gardeners make when seed starting and how to avoid them, plus my favorite resources to use with seed starting. Find out how to get a free packet of my families heirloom Tarheel green pole beans. All of the show notes, resources, and freebies are at Episode #130

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40:22

7 Tips to Organize & Build Your Homestead Food...

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern... ·

2018/02/09

Learn how to organize your kitchen once and how that will help you build up your food storage and maximize your time and money. Why an organized kitchen is vital to a well run homestead and the exact steps and criteria to make sure it's working for you and your family, because it's all about customizing things to work for us.

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01:18:25

What Happens to Your Body When You Eat Healthy & Cut...

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern... ·

2018/02/02

Learn what happens to your body when you eat healthy and cut out sugar following a keto diet and how a keto diet follows ancestral eating patterns of eating food when it's in season and from what you can hunt, gather, forage and provide for yourself. Learn how your genetics play into what foods work for your body. Plus all your answers from Dr. Hillary Lampers answered on going keto, if it's safe for certain diseases or conditions, and what's going to be best for you.

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