ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
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.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 11 days
Average audio length:
38 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
507 episodes
since Jan. 17, 2014
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~44.64% of listeners are from Ireland.
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41.29%
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GB
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IN
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Others
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If I had to start my pantry completely over tomorrow, there are only three grains I'd buy for all my baking and cooking. And two of the grains most beginner guides recommend aren't even on my list!
When you first start milling your own flour, it's easy to get overwhelmed by all the choices. Hard r…
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
For the past several months, I've felt the Lord laying a message on my heart: Get your house in order.
For our family, that has meant deepening our relationship with Him and taking a fresh look at how we're caring for our home and pantry.
I'm not predicting a catastrophe, and I don't believe we'r…
This episode is a little different than what I normally share, but it's a message that has been on my heart for months: Get your house in order!
After walking through a difficult season with my family, the Lord has been teaching me more about listening for His voice, following His direction, and p…
Have you ever tried an herb and thought, "This just doesn't work"? The problem may not be the herb itself. It may be the timing, the dose, the preparation, or whether that herb actually matches what your body needs in that moment.
In this episode, I'm breaking down one of the biggest mistakes peop…
What's the herbal equivalent of aspirin, Tylenol, or ibuprofen?
It's one of the most common questions people ask when they first start learning about medicinal herbs, and it makes sense. Most of us have been taught to identify a symptom and then reach for something designed to make that symptom go…
Is your skincare routine actually helping your skin, or are you just chasing the next quick fix?
In this episode, I'm joined by Emilie Toups, founder of Toups & Co., to talk about natural skincare for aging skin and what really changes as we move through our late 30s, 40s, and beyond.
We're d…
Have you ever stopped to ask yourself, Who does it all belong to?
Most of us naturally think of our homes, businesses, gardens, and finances as our own. But what if the Bible paints a different picture? What if we're not owners at all, but stewards of everything God has entrusted to us?
In this e…
The 2026 Modern Homesteading Conference is officially in the books, and in this episode I'm sharing some of my favorite moments from an unforgettable weekend. From incredible testimonies of lives changed through homesteading to behind-the-scenes stories of organizing the event, I'm reflecting on th…
Summer meals don't have to mean heating up the kitchen or staring into the fridge wondering what to make.
In this episode, I'm sharing my favorite strategies for Summer Meal Planning, including how to let your garden write the menu, batch-cook proteins for multiple meals, use simple meal templates…
Have you ever wondered which plants are actually mentioned in the Bible and what significance they held in biblical times?
In this episode, we're taking a closer look at 16 healing plants of the Bible, including familiar names like frankincense, myrrh, hyssop, aloe, mustard, and cinnamon. We'll ex…
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