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Cancer Was Next – Melissa K. Norris on How Modern Food Nearly Broke Her and Homesteading Brought Her Back

What if living more ancestrally didn’t mean giving everything up—but instead meant gaining something back?

In this episode of Everyday Ancestral, I’m joined by Melissa K. Norris—modern homesteader, author, and host of the Pioneering Today podcast—for a deep dive into what it really means to blend old-world wisdom with a modern lifestyle. Melissa and I are totally on the same page: we’re not trying to go off-grid or pretend we live in the 1800s—but we’re also not willing to outsource our health, our food, or our sovereignty.

Melissa shares how a major health scare in her twenties shook her out…

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