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Pioneering Today

Pioneering Today

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 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.

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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Pioneering Today episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Pioneering Today for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Pioneering Today episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Pioneering Today - Homesteading With Special Needs Children
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03/10/23 • 33 min

Though not all of us are homesteading with special needs children, it's likely that many of us know someone who is. In this podcast, my good friend Rachel is sharing her tips on raising a special needs child on the homestead. If you're a parent with a newly diagnosed child with special needs it can be hard to know exactly where to start. How to talk to family and friends about your child and how to express their needs. For any links mentioned in this episode, be sure to check out the blog post here: melissaknorris.com/381

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Today’s podcast is a live coaching call with Pioneering Today Academy member, Briana-Jo, and we’re discussing real-life problems she’s facing on her homestead. Briana-Jo works a full-time job (commuting 30 miles each way), lives on 1.3 acres with much of the land shaded or wooded, and a long to-do list of projects. We’ll be discussing ways to utilize imperfect land and how to prioritize projects. For the show notes and any links mentioned in today’s podcast visit https://melissaknorris.com/377.

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Pioneering Today - Ultimate Guide to Fermenting Vegetables
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09/24/21 • 32 min

In this podcast we're talking all about fermenting vegetables! Including the three different kinds of fermentation and which is used when fermenting vegetables, how to ferment vegetables, plus all the supplies you need (and the supplies you DON'T need). You’ll be surprised at how little you need to ferment successfully, but there are also some optional tools that will help you out and make the process easier along the way. For more information, links and shownotes visit melissaknorris.com/320.

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Pioneering Today - Pioneering Today Podcast Episode #6 Canning 101
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08/29/13 • 20 min

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Pioneering Today - How to Make Homemade Extracts
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11/04/16 • 20 min

Learn how to make homemade extracts with tips on saving time, best sources of ingredients to avoid GMO's, best flavors, and recipes for making over 6 different homemade extracts.

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Pioneering Today - How to Start Beekeeping

How to Start Beekeeping

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05/17/19 • 53 min

Learn how to start beekeeping with in depth guide on choosing the right place for your hives, types of hives, where to buy bees, how to choose the best bees based on your climate, what supplies you must have to get started (and some frugal options), what to look for when performing hive checks, how much honey to expect, and how much setting up a backyard hive costs. Get the full blog post and resources for this episode at https://melissaknorris.com/179

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Pioneering Today - How to Make Saltwater Brine Fermented Pickles
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10/15/16 • 23 min

Learn how to make old-fashioned saltwater brine pickles, aka fermented, pickles. The best type of salt, water, temperatures, and tips for success. Plus, how long to ferment and storage requirements.

Make pickles like the pioneers and your great-grandmother did with just 3 ingredients!

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Pioneering Today - Time & Budget Saving Tips from the Great Depression
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10/21/17 • 32 min

Learn these easy time saving tips that help keep the grocery budget down (and your energy bill) when serving up from scratch foods to your family. Shared from the Great Depression and my homestead kitchen to yours.

How we avoid cold cereal without cooking breakfast every morning, in fact, I usually only do this twice a month!

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Pioneering Today - 12 Tips to Get Your Homestead Ready for Winter
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10/14/17 • 22 min

I share the exact steps we take to get our home and homestead ready for winter, from livestock, to the garden, inside and more.

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How we determine which crops we plant each year and how to make sure we plant enough to provide us with a full year of that food. I take you step by step through our process, even if you've never grown your garden before and don't have an inventory of home preserved food to guide you.

Get my FREE harvest and garden planning inventory sheet to help you create your best garden and harvest ever with a full years worth of food.

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FAQ

How many episodes does Pioneering Today have?

Pioneering Today currently has 446 episodes available.

What topics does Pioneering Today cover?

The podcast is about Leisure, Home & Garden, Gardening, How To, Survival, Podcasts, Education and Homesteading.

What is the most popular episode on Pioneering Today?

The episode title 'Ultimate Guide to Fermenting Vegetables' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Pioneering Today?

The average episode length on Pioneering Today is 36 minutes.

How often are episodes of Pioneering Today released?

Episodes of Pioneering Today are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of Pioneering Today?

The first episode of Pioneering Today was released on Jul 19, 2013.

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