EP: 454 Forgotten Plants That Practically Preserve Themselves – Grow Like Our Ancestors

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

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🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Imagine being able to grow crops that basically preserve themselves! Would you believe me if I told you there are storage varieties of tomatoes that can last upwards of six months when stored correctly? You know I’ve purchased my storage tomato seeds already! If you want to learn more, join me for today’s podcast episode with Don Tipping of Siskiyou Seeds. For more information and any links mentioned in today’s podcast, visit https://melissaknorris.com/454.

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0:00.0	Hey, pioneers, welcome to episode number 454. Today's episode, we're going to be talking about
0:12.8	using crops that allow you to preserve food, the more in line with the way our ancestors
0:19.6	and pioneers did. I don't know about you guys, but one of the things I've been evaluating way our ancestors and pioneers did.
0:24.4	I don't know about you guys, but one of the things I've been evaluating this year,
0:27.5	and maybe it's just one year older, aren't we all, aging?
0:34.9	I have really been looking at ways and things on the homestead to minimize the amount of work that we have to do where possible.
0:38.4	I mean, homesteading is always going to be work.
0:40.7	So specifically looking at crops and maybe it's different varieties, maybe it's trying
0:45.1	different things.
0:45.8	And it's both for me moving into this year on the preservation mode, but also on the planting
0:51.8	mode.
0:52.2	And that is looking at things through the lens, like how did they do this a hundred years ago?
0:59.6	And how can I mimic that?
1:03.6	So for example, I mean, they weren't seed starting, at least here where I live in the north, right?
1:08.2	Like they weren't seeds starting with heat mats.
1:17.4	And they weren't seeds starting with heat mats and they weren't seeds starting with grow lights and all of those things. So how were they growing these crops without having the ability specifically with like onions? They were growing onions,
1:22.5	but they weren't starting onion sets or ordering onion sets, you know, from half a country or states away or
1:30.0	anything like that, they had to figure out systems. So maybe those crops look different. Maybe
1:34.5	they're different varieties. But that's kind of the journey that I'm on this year is playing
1:39.7	around with that and figuring that out. So today I thought it would be very fun.
1:44.5	In fact, I was looking forward to this conversation so much.
1:46.9	It's an awesome one.
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