Foraging Trail Curation Update and List 4 - Weeds, Crafts, Fishing, Mushrooms, and more - so much foraging on Steemit!

Here's Part 1 of the long-awaited update about the great posts being curated on the @foraging-trail. This report lists all the posts made since the last report that have now passed the 30-day active commenting period. Tomorrow, I'll post Part 2, covering active posts that you can still leave comments in. If you want to connect with anyone in today's list of authors, go to their blog page and leave a reply in one of their current posts.

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Introduction

The Foraging-Trail is a SteemTrail project to grow an engaged community of people within Steemit, who are interested in foraging for food and crafts. That means making posts and comments where we all can learn, share our thoughts about foraging, and show our field trips, harvests, and what we do with nature’s wild bounty.

The long-term goal is that people will join Steemit to be part of specific communities – like Foraging - because they are so active, engaging, and supportive. Focused Steemit communities will provide more structure for getting new people connected easily, without drifting away in confusion or frustration.

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25 Great Steemit Foraging Posts

It's been an embarrassingly long 2 months since the third report on the SteemTrail Foraging Trail. Blame the curator, @haphazard-hstead! The authors were great in this group of posts, about presenting their own images, experiences, insights, and perspectives. That makes this Steemit content unique and valuable!

The Foraging Trail tries to discover new authors posting original foraging content and to support the community's regular authors, too. Right now, @haphazard-hstead is the only curator. If you are interested in helping out, join the Foraging-Trail on Discord!

This is the fourth published list of curated foraging posts. Some great things to note about this list of posts -- there are 25 posts from 17 different people, with 8 authors new to the @foraging-trail, and 9 repeat authors.

There is incredible value in these 25 posts! If you haven’t seen them yet, I urge you to read them, even though you can't make comments in those posts. If you want to connect with anyone in today's list of authors, go to their blog page and leave a reply in one of their current posts. I strongly encourage you to leave your foraging questions and comments in these authors' current posts. That’s how we learn and get to know each other.

These 25 foraging posts generated $340.54 in total payouts to authors and curators, for an average payout of $13.62 per post. With all the bots and vote trails, reporting on the upvotes generated by these posts doesn't have much meaning anymore. Instead, because the @foraging-trail is about building a Steemit community, it's better to look at metrics for community interaction.

What about community interaction? These posts had 327 comments, or over 13 comments/post on average. How does 13 comments/post compare to what you are creating or reading?

Congratulations to all the authors! Thank you, everyone, for your upvotes and support of these posts. Please consider following the many authors whose work is featured here. If you follow the @foraging-trail, too, you can see the curation in real time. Then you can easily upvote the curated posts to support our Steemit foraging writers. And you won’t miss some great foraging posts! Don’t forget to comment and upvote comments as well – it really shows appreciation of each other within our community.

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Foraging-Trail Curated Posts

Author	Abridged Post Title	Payout	Comments
@haphazard-hstead	Ramen Noodles and Weeds	$20.09	39
@bontonstory	Wild Pear Extract	$10.96	11
@reddust	Mallow Flowers and Tea	$6.01	9
@namastaynpaint	Palm Frond Painting	$7.08	7
@rebeccaryan	Foraged Christmas Decorations	$11.14	33
@yetaras	Mushroom Hunting	$1.50	5
@papa-pepper	Snow Cones From Snow	$8.62	33
@andre-ager	Dandelion Bitters Winter Tonic	$10.75	9
@neko-9	Natural Christmas Decoration How-To	$0	4
@realmeandi	Pebble Art Wall	$18.48	14
@felixxx	Desert Truffles on the Canaries	$16.49	8
@steemvest17	Hunting for Jaringa Fruit	$22.15	16
@steemvest17	Fish Species at the Indian Ocean Coast	$10.89	7
@haphazard-hstead	Black-eyed Peas with Wild Field Mustard	$17.81	20
@haphazard-hstead	15-Weed Winter Salad with Foraging ID Quiz	$3.09	25
@rainchen	Borneo-Style Cooking Snakehead Fish in Bamboo	$13.41	3
@countryinspired	Country Folks - with Morels and Fish	$86.60	37
@papa-pepper	American Persimmon	$24.61	15
@namastaynpaint	Palm Frond and Seed Pod Painting	$2.81	11
@fishingvideos	Delicious Fish	$17.59	6
@ability	A Magic Tree - Kudzu	$12.76	3
@fishingvideos	I Take You Hunting	$9.00	2
@steemvest17	Night-fishing at Coast of Malacca Straight	$0.55	4
@grildrig	Preserved Boletus Edulis Mushrooms	$1.19	2
@steemvest17	Hunting for the Straw Mushroom	$7.05	4

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What's Next

Part 2 of the @foraging-trail will be posted tomorrow. It will list at least 24 posts that are still active for payouts and engagement through comments! With spring coming in the Northern Hemisphere, foraging in the real world will be picking up quickly! Let's see some of that momentum in Steemit foraging posts, too! Let's make Steemit the premier foraging community on the Internet. How can you help?

1. Start writing about foraging topics and post them with the Foraging tag! You can find out more about the Steemit Foraging community and guidelines for being upvoted by the @foraging-trail here and here.
2. Support the creators making posts with the Foraging tag by upvoting and/or commenting.
3. Volunteer with SteemTrail to help curate posts about Foraging. If you want to help, join the Foraging-Trail on Discord
4. Stay tuned for updates. If you follow @foraging-trail here on Steemit, you’ll see them.

if you see this image in your comments, your post has been curated by Foraging-Trail:

Upvoted by @foraging-trail

Thank you for following and upvoting @foraging-trail

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Note: All author rewards from this post will be used to fund @foraging-trail.