397 episodes

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 Made-from-Scratch Life. This podcast brings you the conversation from MelissaKNorris.com and The Pioneering Today Academy, with Q&A's, teaching, tutorials, and always giving you practical ways and tips to live the simple and self-sufficient life.

Pioneering Today Melissa K Norris

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    • 4.8 • 866 Ratings

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 Made-from-Scratch Life. This podcast brings you the conversation from MelissaKNorris.com and The Pioneering Today Academy, with Q&A's, teaching, tutorials, and always giving you practical ways and tips to live the simple and self-sufficient life.

    EP: 405 Medicinal Herbs & Their Uses with Kaylee Richardson

    EP: 405 Medicinal Herbs & Their Uses with Kaylee Richardson

    Come hang out with me and Kaylee Richardson (from The Honeystead) as we discuss our favorite medicinal herbs and their uses. For more information and any links mentioned in this episode, visit melissaknorris.com/405.

    • 52 min
    EP: 404 Herbal Secret - Do this Daily to Reduce Stress & Overwhelm

    EP: 404 Herbal Secret - Do this Daily to Reduce Stress & Overwhelm

    What is an adaptogen and why should you consider incorporating them into your daily routine? Learn about adaptogen herbs and how they can be used to help support your body on a daily basis, including what adaptogens to use, where to buy them, and how to use them.  For more information and any links mentioned in this episode, visit melissaknorris.com/404.

    • 53 min
    EP: 402 Bridging Heritage and Health: Hunting 101

    EP: 402 Bridging Heritage and Health: Hunting 101

    Join me for today’s episode of the Pioneering Today Podcast with hunting expert Chris Gilmour. For many, hunting brings up negative connotations or even sadness. My guest can completely understand that as he wasn't raised with hunting as I was. In fact, he was even a vegetarian for eight years! Listen in to this episode because we’re discussing all things hunting, from the various hunting styles, how much it costs to get into hunting, how to find the best places to hunt, and where you can join Chris for a hunting course. For more information and any links mentioned in this episode, visit melissaknorris.com/402.

    • 59 min
    EP: 401 Preserving Food When it's Too Hot to Can

    EP: 401 Preserving Food When it's Too Hot to Can

    Today’s episode of the Pioneering Today Podcast is all about how to preserve food when it’s too hot to can (even canning outdoors). For many of us, August comes with some extreme heat. This isn’t always great for our garden, especially during the peak of the harvest. Learn how to make sure your harvest doesn’t go to waste and that you can preserve all that garden goodness without heating up your house in the process. For more information and any links mentioned in this episode, visit melissaknorris.com/401.

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

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

    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.

    • 1 hr 22 min
    EP: 403 Foraging for Wild Medicinal Herbs with Dr. Patrick Jones

    EP: 403 Foraging for Wild Medicinal Herbs with Dr. Patrick Jones

    Join me for today’s episode of the Pioneering Today Podcast with Dr. Patrick Jones. He’s sharing his wisdom for harvesting, preserving and using wild medicinal herbs that can be found right in our own backyard. If you’re interested in herbal medicine, this is one episode you won’t want to miss. For more information and any links mentioned in this episode, visit melissaknorris.com/403.
     

    • 41 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
866 Ratings

866 Ratings

Jasminestan ,

Great fun and learn a lot

I enjoy Melissa and the topics she discusses. Encourged me to start cooking more from scratch and getting to my local community. I can homestead where I am. I am enjoying learning about gardening and preservation. I am still wokeing on it. But every step counts. Thank you! Your excitement to teach comes through and even my husband loves to listen with me. Look forward to every episode.

Sydwilliamson9 ,

My New Favorite Podcast

I’ve been listening to Melissa’s podcast every day for about a week now! I am not new to the rural lifestyle, but I am new to homesteading. I’ve got so much I want to learn about becoming self sufficient and this podcast has already helped me. Melissa has great topics that she talks about and also teaches things in a way that is easy to understand! I’ve already ordered one of her books. For years, something has always told me that I need to learn these skills and way of life. Finding this podcast has made me really excited to finally dive in! Thank you, Melissa!

Bookgasm ,

Mostly Good Info

Looking for a good farmsteading/homesteading podcast without Christian proselytizing. The main content is good. I just fast forward or stop listening when she gets to evangelizing

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