Old Ways New Days

By Old Ways

Homesteading with a focus on urban and suburban sustainable living with a pagan and spiritual twist.

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March 19, 2026 Planning the Garden Like Our Ancestors: Seed Mapping, Companions & Sacred Design
Before we plant… we plan.
In this week’s episode of Old Ways New Days, we’re mapping the garden like our ancestors:
🌱 Seed placement with intention
🌿 Companion planting wisdom
🌎 Spiritual land design
🗓 When to sow outdoors
🪴 Where your January & February seedlings should be right now
Gardening isn’t just rows in soil.
It’s relationship.
Listen now wherever you gather your podcasts — and let’s write the land with care. 🌾
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18min
March 17, 2026 Snakes, Saints, and Shadows: The Untold Story of St. Patrick’s Day
Everyone wears green on March 17th… but do you know what the “snakes” really represented?
This episode dives into the true history of St. Patrick’s Day — from Christian conversion to cultural erasure — and how modern witches can reclaim the day by honoring those lost to persecution.
Why some witches wear red and black instead of green.
How the holiday became a global drinking event.
And what remembrance can look like in modern practice.
Snakes. Saints. Shadows.
Listen now on Old Ways, New Days.
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March 12, 2026 Backyard Homestead Basics: Simple Structures That Last
What if your garden didn’t just grow food…
What if it grew fences that live, beds that feed themselves, and soil built from yesterday’s scraps?

In this week’s episode of Old Ways New Days, we’re breaking down easy at-home garden builds — from willow living fences to hugelkultur mounds and keyhole gardens.

No fancy budget.
No perfection.
Just practical magic and hands in the dirt.

Listen now and start building your living garden. 🌿
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20min
March 05, 2026 The Land Remembers
The chemicals used to fertilize modern fields were once used to make bombs.
After WWII, excess war factories turned their production toward agriculture — and the soil has been paying the price ever since.
What does that mean for our bodies?
For chronic disease?
For the way we farm animals?
For the way we eat?
In this episode of Old Ways, New Days, we explore the deep connection between soil health and human health — from bomb factories to CAFOs to Victory Gardens — and what stewardship could look like now.
Because everything is related.
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22min
February 26, 2026 Part 2: Black Herbalists & Plant Medicine
This Black History Month, we honor the Black herbalists who healed under enslavement, carried medicine in memory, and kept communities alive when care was denied.
Part Two of Old Ways New Days is a reverent reflection on plant medicine, lineage, and survival.
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16min
February 19, 2026 Part 1: Rooted Resistance: Black Innovators, Ancestral Wisdom & the Foundations of Sustainable Living
“Before sustainable living had a name, it had roots. 🌱
This Black History Month, Old Ways New Days honors the Black innovators, ancestral farmers, and land stewards who shaped homesteading, regenerative agriculture, and food sovereignty — blending history, spirituality, and soil wisdom into one powerful story.”
Resources:
Oneearth.org
Tsfrcbo.org
Blackinplantscience.org
Csuchico.edu
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February 12, 2026 From Soil to Shaker: Stocking Your Herb & Spice Cabinet from the Garden
Before spices were trendy, they were powerful. 🌿
From garden herbs to world-changing seeds, this episode of Old Ways New Days explores how to grow, dry, store, and honor the seasonings that once shaped empires—and can still shape your pantry today.
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17min
February 05, 2026 From Harvest to Cellar: The Real Work of Food Preservation
Food preservation isn’t pretty — it’s powerful.
This episode of Old Ways New Days dives deep into real‑world food preservation: pressure canning, water bath canning, drying, salt preservation, and the mistakes that teach us how to do it right.
Because resilience is built one jar at a time.
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28min
February 02, 2026 February Fires & First Fruits From Imbolc to Lunar New Year and the Living Traditions In Between
February is not an empty month.
It’s a time of milk returning to the pail,
candles lit against the cold,
homes cleansed for what comes next,
and new years beginning under a different moon.
In this episode of Old Ways New Days, we explore February’s holidays and holy days—from Imbolc’s dairy and fire, to folk traditions of purification, to fertility rites, and the Lunar New Year’s ancestral renewal.
Different cultures.
Shared survival.
The same human instinct to prepare for spring.
If you’ve felt February tugging at you—quietly asking you to tend, to clean, to hope—this episode is for you.
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16min
January 29, 2026 Pilgrim's Wilderness: A Story of Faith, Deception, and Survival
Book: "Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier" by Tom Kizzia (Crown Publishers, 2013)
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28min

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How many episodes does Old Ways New Days have?

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