426 Episodes

  1. Don’t Transplant These Crops—Why Direct Seeding Works Better w/ Don Tipping

    Published: 5/30/2025

  2. Lard for Sunburn & SPF? What They Don’t Tell You About Skin Care

    Published: 5/22/2025

  3. Thinking About Getting a Herding Dog? WATCH THIS FIRST

    Published: 5/16/2025

  4. EP #466 Preserve More, Waste Less: Proven Homestead Tips for Long-Lasting Success

    Published: 5/2/2025

  5. EP #465 - Mennonite Traditions for Simple Meals & Stronger Families w/ Ruthanne

    Published: 4/18/2025

  6. How to Get Homemade Meals on the Table When You're Busy - EP #464

    Published: 4/11/2025

  7. EP:463 Timing is Everything: The Secret to More Powerful Herbal Remedies

    Published: 3/28/2025

  8. EP: 462 Foraging Freedom: Find Wild Mushrooms & Cut Your Grocery Bill

    Published: 3/21/2025

  9. Herbal Wisdom Roundtable: Our Best Remedies & Why They Work

    Published: 3/14/2025

  10. EP: 460 Mastering Money on the Homestead: Budgeting & Debt-Free Living with Popcorn Finance

    Published: 3/7/2025

  11. EP: 459 Why Organizing Won’t Fix Your Clutter (Do This Instead) with Dana K White

    Published: 2/28/2025

  12. EP: 458 - Hand Crank Grain Mills: Worth It or Hype?

    Published: 2/14/2025

  13. #1 Time-Saving Kitchen Hacks - Homestead Kitchen Roundtable

    Published: 2/7/2025

  14. EP: 456 Hand Pump Water Pumps - Everything You Need to Know

    Published: 1/31/2025

  15. EP: 455 Tips EVERYONE Should Know BEFORE Baking with Sourdough

    Published: 1/24/2025

  16. EP: 454 Forgotten Plants That Practically Preserve Themselves – Grow Like Our Ancestors

    Published: 1/10/2025

  17. EP:453 Homesteading Ethics: Provide for Yourself or Others?

    Published: 12/20/2024

  18. EP:452 What Most Gardeners Get Wrong About Fruit Tree Care (And How to Fix It) w/ Susan Poizner

    Published: 12/13/2024

  19. EP:451 Could This Movie Be the Start of a Global Homesteading Revolution?

    Published: 12/6/2024

  20. EP: 450 Ancestral Cheesemaking for Better Gut Health: The Benefits of Traditional Methods with David Asher

    Published: 11/15/2024

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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.