Foraging Trail Curation Update and List 9 - Forty-two foraging posts in 2 weeks on Steemit! Flowers, berries, mushrooms, seafood, insects, foraging tips, art, and much more!

With niche tags not going back more than 7 days on Steemit, these @foraging-trail curation lists are your pathway to Steemit's stellar foragers and great foraging posts.

The pace of foraging posts on Steemit is really picking up! And we can sure tell that it's the season for summer flowers, berries, and summer mushrooms. If you are interested in foraging, come on into this report to learn more about the Foraging Trail and Steemit foragers, and appreciate nature's bounty.

This is the 9th update about the great posts being curated on the @foraging-trail. This report lists all the posts made since the last report. These posts have passed the 7-day payout period, but you can still make comments on those 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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42 Great Steemit Foraging Posts

These 42 posts were put on the Steemit blockchain in just over 2 weeks! The authors were great in this group of posts - they gave us their own images, experiences, insights, and perspectives. That makes this Steemit content unique and valuable!

The Foraging Trail aims 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 9th published list of curated foraging posts. Some great things to note about this list of posts. There are 42 posts from 24 different people, with 12 authors new to the @foraging-trail, and 12 repeat authors.

There is incredible value in these 42 posts! If you haven’t seen them yet, I urge you to read them. Even though the payout period is closed for many of these posts, you can still make comments on them. I strongly encourage you to leave your foraging questions and comments in these posts. That’s how we learn and get to know each other. And check out the blogs for these authors, too, to see what they've been doing recently.

These 42 foraging posts generated $377.65 in total payouts to authors and curators, for an average payout of $8.99 per post. That's great for having so many new Steemians on this list, and the incredible rise in the number of posts on Steemit overall this past month that make visibility difficult for almost everyone!

With all the bots and vote trails, reporting on the upvotes generated by these posts doesn't have much meaning. 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 1259 comments, or over 30 comments/post on average, and a median of 18 comments. How does 18 comments/post compare to what you are creating or reading? According to steempunks.com run by @ontofractal, the average is 5 comments/post over the past month.

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	Post	Payout	Comments
@ocrdu	Colour Challenge: Berries	$29.73	12
@galberto	Have you ever eating worm? Me neither.	$0.30	10
@haphazard-hstead	Elder Flowers - How To Identify Wild Elderberry Shrubs - with tips on harvesting and storing their flowers	$29.58	79
@farmandadventure	Quickly Changing Chicken of the Woods-Or Is It?	$5.79	34
@farmandadventure	On the Hunt for WILD Chicken of the Woods!	$11.52	21
@andre-ager	Ginger Tumeric Ale using Dandelion for the bitter	$0.91	11
@haphazard-hstead	How to Make Elder Flower Pancakes	$23.13	103
@jennswall	THISTLE PLANT - URBAN FORAGING HANDBOOK	$4.30	30
@openparadigm	Thimbleberry-Rubus Parviflorus	$2.98	8
@haphazard-hstead	How Bitter is That Wild Plant? - Bitter Flavors in Wild Plants - How Much Is Too Much?	$15.62	69
@dumar022	Undersea foraging: MUSSELS - From sea to plate	$9.62	24
@heidikole	Weed-Beauties - NYC-Style	$0.09	7
@dber	The Amateur Mycologist #10 - Coprinus comatus - The Shaggy Mane	$26.97	28
@yetaras	My trophies from the mushroom journey to the Carpathians	$2.67	24
@haphazard-hstead	Spruce Tree Balsamic Vinegar -- So Easy to Make - From a Spruce Tree!	$6.63	92
@flemingfarm	Foragers - Make a map of your foraging spots with Google - The step by step of how to create your map.	$1.14	13
@openparadigm	SALAL-Gaultheria shallon	$2.33	13
@haphazard-hstead	Comfort Food with Yucca Flowers	$8.91	126
@openparadigm	Early Blackberry Harvest-Rubus ursinus-Trailing Blackberry	$2.39	6
@svfarms	Recipe - Blackberry Preserves	$0.28	14
@denmarkguy	Painted Mandala Stones	$2.86	23
@galberto	Bamboo shoots simple recipe	$0.57	16
@dumar022	Undersea foraging: Exploring the terrain	$34.49	42
@backtonatural	Why I Think Wild Edibles Are The Cure For World Hunger!	$0.26	4
@trosanelli	How to make natural Dogbane Indian Hemp Cordage (Part 2/3)	$0.28	8
@trosanelli	Collecting and Preparing Dogbane Indian Hemp for Cordage (Part 1/3)	$0.26	7
@openparadigm	Number 1 Foraging Tool the Hori Hori!	$2.19	13
@jimithyashford	Advice for Trying New Wild Edibles: Test and Wait	$0.52	7
@haphazard-hstead	Redbud Flowers - How To Find, Harvest, and Eat Redbud Flowers	$9.82	83
@flemingfarm	Now I am ready to make some wine!!!	$19.24	17
@bullionstackers	Catch It - Cook It - Eat It	$17.16	42
@dber	The Amateur Mycologist #9 - Boletus edulis - The Porcini	$14.56	43
@dber	The Amateur Mycologist #8 - Laetiporus sulphureus - Chicken of the Woods	$20.75	38
@shady	Do you like berries? Berries Cream Cheese Dessert - Recipe, photos and properties of berries	$5.10	17
@tioluis	STEEMIT CULINARY CHALLENGE 33: Berry Madness! Bacon Wrap Tri-tip, Blueberry Muffins, Raspberry Vinaigrette	$12.58	40
@progressivechef	STEEMIT CULINARY CHALLENGE 33: ALIEN BERRIES AND CRISPY KUNAFA WITH HONEY AND YOGHURT	$1.77	22
@progressivechef	Foraging Wild and Unique Berries From Mauritius - Discovery	$4.18	27
@jaymorebeet	Steemit Culinary Challenge 33 - Wild Mulberry and Backyard Black Raspberry Shortbread Bars	$14.89	34
@kate-m	Taioba - forget spinach, this dark green leaf from Brazil is a nutrient powerhouse	$0.66	10
@flemingfarm	Tiger Lilies - Lilium Columbianum - Colville National Forest	$1.31	10
@cavemanrob	Everyday Herbalism: The Plantain	$14.70	18
@galberto	Planta deliciosa sustituta del esparrago	$14.61	14

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What's Next

The Foraging Trail will continue to upvote and resteem quality foraging posts. Starting in mid-August, there will be other activities, too -- contests, badges, and more! So now is a good time to start following the @foraging-trail and get to know the foragers of Steemit- and the future foragers!

There's more than a lifetime's worth of learning about foraging for food and crafts, so we can all learn from each other -- and be inspired to get out to appreciate nature's bounty. Even if you have never foraged for anything, your thoughts about foraging are valued here on the Foraging Trail!

Let's make Steemit the premier foraging community on the Internet. How can you help?

1. Support the creators making quality foraging posts by upvoting them when they get resteemed by the @foraging-trail. Any post less than 7 days old will benefit from your upvote.
2. 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.
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.

I hope to see you on the Foraging Trail! Happy Foraging!

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Note: All author rewards from this post will be used to fund @foraging-trail and SteemTrail. The SBD portion supports the larger SteemTrail initiative. The SP stays with the @foraging-trail to increase its upvote payout power. Foraging posts by @haphazard-hstead, the curator of the Foraging Trail, are not upvoted by the @foraging-trail. This allows the @foraging-trail to use its voting power to reward other authors at the maximum power available.