Pioneering Today
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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 406
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
10 Tips on How to Raise Chickens Like the Pioneers
Tips on raising chickens without heat lamps, best breeds for cold climates, and how to keep your flock healthy and warm like the pioneers.
Boost Your Immune System Naturally with this Old-Fashioned Food
Learn how eating this one old-fashioned food daily helps naturally boost your immune system and how to make it in less than 15 minutes for half the cost of store bought!
Best Plants for Small Garden Spaces & Self-Sufficiency
Which vegetables give you the most harvest for the smallest amount of space and are the best candidates for seed saving. We grow enough of these two plants to save the seed and preserve enough food t…
Frugal Mixes for less than $1 Made from Food Storage
Make your own homemade from scratch mixes for gifts.