If you want to learn how to use herbs medicinally and not only medicinally but also grow them,

I can think of little else that gets me excited as knowing I can literally grow our medicine right outside our back door, then you, my friend, are going to want to make

sure that you are registered and signed up for our herbal summer series. This is completely free, though you definitely could charge for it because it is

packed with information. Once you sign up starting in August, every week you are going to get an email from me going over my top 10 favorite herbs.

Each week we are going to pick one of those herbs and do a deep dive on how to grow that herb,

but more importantly, how to use it, including safety, and if you should use it or not if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.

We go through all of the cautions, the medicinal properties, and its uses.

So when you get done done you will have in your pocket and hopefully by

that point in your medicine cabinet my favorite top 10 herbs to always have at the ready. Go to Melissa K Norris.com forward slash

summer herb and make sure that you get registered. Summer school is in session and it has never been better. Hey pioneers. Welcome to episode number 417. So today's episode we're going to be

talking about preparing your medicinal herbs for the year. And a little bit of backstory about how this

conversation came to be is this past weekend I was having a conversation

with Carolyn Thomas from homesteading family. I know many of you know

Carolyn. Carolyn is my best friend and so we were kind of just chit-chatting through like you know what we were doing on the

homestead,

like kind of what was going on,

playing catch up for the week,

and we both started talking about

that we had just done our seed inventories

for the year, and if you didn't catch the video

that I just put out on YouTube last week,

if you're watching this, the podcast via video format,

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