{"podcast":{"title":"Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World","slug":"pioneering-today-podcast-homesteading-in-a-modern-world-2594798","podcast_index_feed_id":2594798,"rss_url":"https://feeds.feedburner.com/MelissaknorrissPodcast","website_url":"https://melissaknorris.com","image_url":"https://melissaknorris.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/PioneeringTodayPodcast.jpg","author":"Melissa K. Norris 5th Generation Homesteader (melissa@melissaknorris.com)","episode_count":300,"summary":"Want to get back to the basics of raising your own food, cooking from scratch, preserving the harvest, and knowing how to do it yourself? Join 5th generation homesteader, Melissa K. Norris, on the Pioneering Today Podcast where we share how to raise, cook and preserve your own food with old-fashioned skill sets and wisdom for a more natural and self-sufficient home, with, or without, the homestead. We cover organic gardening, home food preservation from canning, dehydrating, fermenting, root cellar, and more, traditional cooking skills, organic and natural home and body care recipes, natural health, growing and building your own natural medicine cabinet, foraging, livestock, and everything else you need for modern homesteading.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pioneering-today-podcast-homesteading-in-a-modern-world-2594798"},"episode":{"title":"Herbs Every Family Should Have Stocked Before Summer Hits | Episode 510","slug":"herbs-every-family-should-have-stocked-before-summer-hits-episode-510","published_at":"2026-05-15T03:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pioneering-today-podcast-homesteading-in-a-modern-world-2594798/herbs-every-family-should-have-stocked-before-summer-hits-episode-510","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pioneering-today-podcast-homesteading-in-a-modern-world-2594798","url":"https://melissaknorris.libsyn.com/5-herbs-every-family-should-have-stocked-before-summer-hits-episode-510","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/melissaknorris/Pioneering_Today_510.mp3?dest-id=151382","summary":"Summer means more time outside… and more sunburns, bug bites, bee stings, scrapes, and itchy skin. In today's episode, I'm sharing the herbal remedies for summer that I always keep stocked in our home apothecary before we need them. These are the natural remedies I personally reach for first when it comes to: 🌿 Sunburn relief 🦟 Mosquito bites & itchy skin 🐝 Bee stings & wasp stings 🩹 Cuts, scrapes & wound healing 💜 Bruises & sore tissue We're talking about practical herbalism you can actually use in everyday life with simple remedies like lavender, aloe vera, plantain, calendula, yarrow, chamomile, arnica, and more. Thanks to Earthley for sponsoring today's podcast. Grab 10% off your order with coupon code \"PIONEER10\" (excluding sale items): Earthley.com RESOURCES MENTIONED: 🌞 Earthley Sun Shield: https://www.earthley.com/products/sun-shield 🦟 Earthley Pest Aside: https://www.earthley.com/products/pest-aside 🩹 Wound Healing Salve: https://melissaknorris.com/homemade-wound-healing-salve-recipe/ 🌿 Lavender Essential Oil (and roller bottles): https://melissaknorris.com/lemon-lavender-peppermint-essential-oils 📖 Verse of the Week: Matthew 13:43 You can grab all the resources and remedies mentioned in this episode here: https://melissaknorris.com/510 If this video helped you, make sure to subscribe and share it with a friend who wants to build a home apothecary and start using homemade herbal remedies. #HerbalRemedies #NaturalRemedies #HomeApothecary #MelissaKNorris #Herbalism #NaturalFirstAid #Homesteading #HerbalMedicine #SummerHerbs","meta_description":"Summer means more time outside… and more sunburns, bug bites, bee stings, scrapes, and itchy skin. In today's episode, I'm sharing the herbal remedies for…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2017,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/pioneering-today-podcast-homesteading-in-a-modern-world-2594798/episodes/herbs-every-family-should-have-stocked-before-summer-hits-episode-510/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pioneering-today-podcast-homesteading-in-a-modern-world-2594798/herbs-every-family-should-have-stocked-before-summer-hits-episode-510.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}