Melissa K. Norris from Modern Homesteading and the Pioneering Today Podcast

Melissa K. Norris from Modern Homesteading the Pioneering Today Podcast where everything is homegrown and homemade!

The Family Garden Plan: Grow a Year's Worth of Sustainable and Healthy Food

Gardeners are so excited to share what we have learned with others who are interested and I feel like that is what we get to do on garden podcasts! And I love podcasts!

Want to read my Golden Seeds Shownotes? There's even two versions a long version that's the full transcript and a short version.

I’m a 5th generation homestead and as a youngster I didn’t appreciate it. My dad lived through the Great Depression so if hey didn’t raise it they didn’t eat through the winter. I thought everyone grew up like that. With a

• garden
• preserving food
• raising beef cattle

It wasn’t until I hit high school really, I didn’t realize I was an anomaly. When my husband and I got married, I was working 40 hours a week and we started our family and I was trying to balance family, and growing our food and all of that, and it has been a 20 year journey to get here.

I feel like my husband grew up in a similar situation on a cattle ranch, growing a lot of their own food, baking their own breads and cookies.

I feel blessed now to have all that insight as an adult it has served me well, but as a teenager I didn’t really appreciate it. My husband and I got married, had kids and I was working as a pharm -tech.

I loved the Little House books as a child, my mother instilled in me a deep love of reading. For us to have tv where we lived you had to go out in the snow and turn the antenna. So I read a lot.

I wanted to write books, my lifelong dream was to write historical fiction. I was always writing about dutch oven cooking and barrel riding and all these things. I was at a writer’s conference and they said you had to have a platform with a blog etc. I was like what’s a blog?

But I learned, we had dial-up internet. And I wrote this blog about things my heroine did that I was also doing. I thought well I cook in a dutch oven so I’ll share my favorite recipes and hopefully people who wanted to read that would read my books and I eventually got a literary agent, and wrote lots of manuscripts but none got accepted. But then the last publishing house said how would you like to write non-fiction, your blog is amazing. And I said YES! Yes, I will!

We raise all of our own beef

pork

increasing a garden

Both of my first books I was doing all of this. Just 2 years ago I was able to “retire” and stay home to focus on

writing

podcasting

e-courses

pioneering today Academy

And of course raise our own food!

Learning how to do all that while I was working was very

Powerful!

because so many people are working and want this lifestyle and aren’t able to leave their regular jobs and I was able to say,

YES YOU CAN!

This is what I did

And how I can help you do it too!

And you do! And you give away lots of free content, but then you also go way in-depth in your classes etc.

Being able to feed our family and grow our own food.

My new book,