Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World

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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.

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Botulism prevention in home canningWater bath canning vs. pressure canningpH levels and food acidity in preservationFermentation safety and lacto-fermentationMold vs. kahm yeast identificationDehydration moisture testing and conditioningRoot cellaring and cold storage varietiesJar sealing failures and siphoning preventionHeadspace measurement in canningStorage crop variety selection

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Why Your Food Preservation Isn't Working (And How to Fix It Safely) | Episode 506

Botulism prevention in home canningWater bath canning vs. pressure canningpH levels and food acidity in preservation

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