{"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":"Throwback: Best Herbal Home Remedies for Cold and Flu w/ Rosalee De La Foret | 492","slug":"throwback-best-herbal-home-remedies-for-cold-and-flu-w-rosalee-de-la-foret-492","published_at":"2025-12-19T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pioneering-today-podcast-homesteading-in-a-modern-world-737525/throwback-best-herbal-home-remedies-for-cold-and-flu-w-rosalee-de-la-foret-492","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pioneering-today-podcast-homesteading-in-a-modern-world-737525","url":"https://melissaknorris.libsyn.com/throwback-best-herbal-home-remedies-for-cold-and-flu-w-rosalee-de-la-foret-492","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/melissaknorris/Pioneering_Today_492.mp3?dest-id=151382","summary":"In this throwback episode, I'm revisiting one of my favorite herbal conversations with my friend and renowned herbalist Rosalee de la Forêt. This discussion truly changed the way I approach herbal medicine. Instead of treating herbs like Western medicine — one symptom, one herb — Rosalee helps us understand why herbalism is so much more personal and intuitive. Together, we walk through how to recognize your body's signals and determine whether what you're experiencing is hot, cold, damp, or dry. Understanding your own energetics is the key to choosing herbs that actually work for your body and supporting your immune system in a deeper, more effective way. If you've ever wanted to use herbs with confidence, especially during cold and flu season, this episode is the perfect place to begin. I've also created an Herbal Energetics Wheel to help you match the right herbs to your constitution. For more information and any links mentioned, visit the blog post here: https://melissaknorris.com/492","meta_description":"In this throwback episode, I'm revisiting one of my favorite herbal conversations with my friend and renowned herbalist Rosalee de la Forêt. This discussi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3403,"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/throwback-best-herbal-home-remedies-for-cold-and-flu-w-rosalee-de-la-foret-492/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/throwback-best-herbal-home-remedies-for-cold-and-flu-w-rosalee-de-la-foret-492.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}