{"podcast":{"title":"Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World","slug":"pioneering-today-podcast-homesteading-in-a-modern-world-737525","podcast_index_feed_id":737525,"rss_url":"https://melissaknorris.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://melissaknorris.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/f/d/e/8/fde8d3640d215ebd16c3140a3186d450/2025_Art_5.jpg","author":"Melissa K Norris","episode_count":300,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-12T00:20:31.134581+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pioneering-today-podcast-homesteading-in-a-modern-world-737525"},"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-737525/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-737525","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-737525/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-737525/herbs-every-family-should-have-stocked-before-summer-hits-episode-510.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}