Helpie’s Homesteading Curation Report

First Edition

Welcome to the first ever Helpie Homesteading Curation Report! This will be a weekly report where we will feature some great content coming out of the homesteading community. Our goal is to find those individuals that are producing quality content, and raise them up to help them grow. We will do this by featuring five Steemians and their posts each week. Also, because the goal is to help them grow on the platform, the rewards payout of this report will be paid to the featured authors. The idea is to find those hidden gems that are not getting the recognition they deserve, and lift them in any way we can.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for great content! We want to reward those individuals that are taking their time and energy to add value to the platform through their high quality content. That’s it, think quality over quantity. We will be collecting them through the week and posting our top five here each Monday.

First Things First: What is Helpie?

Helpie is a new and unique educational community within Steemit, designed to help users that are creating quality content grow on the platform. We do this through a variety of ways including;

• Lessons designed to help users navigate the steemit network and teach them how to get the most out of it. (ex. GINAbot Tutorial, Growing Your Following On Steemit, and Markdown Challenge
  
  
• Daily Steemit related trivia and contests
  
  
• Mentorship from established Steemit users in all different categories
  
  
• A place to discuss ideas, collaborate with other members, and build your personal community
  
  
• Daily upvote from Helpie for members
  
  
• Weekly Curation of great quality content (We are starting with homesteading, but hope to add other categories in the future).
  
  
  Helpie is an invite only community, but anyone can participate in the daily trivia questions. You are not required to upvote Helpi’s posts to participate. This initiative is not meant to be a vote for vote operation, it’s an educational tool only. If you would like to be considered to join Helpie as a minnow in training, please consider joining PALnet/MSP and participating in the community. We have scouts constantly looking for the right minnows to support, and they will reach out with a private invitation.
  
  

This Week's Featured Steemians

You Can Do Anything You Want By @qberry

First up is a post from @Qberry who joined Steemit in January of this year. Qberry covers a variety of topics on his blog including travel, photography, crypto, anything outdoors and of course, homesteading. I really enjoyed reading this post and the message he is conveying. I believe it is a mentality that many successful homesteaders have as well. He tells us how he started down his DIY journey- having wrecked his car and not wanting to pay the overpriced repair man to fix it … he rolled up his sleeves and tried to figure it out for himself. From there he took on many other projects and skills that he had never done before, including renting a piece of heavy machinery to do some dirt work on his property, without ever having operated one before. I think his message here is one that I am a firm believer in, you have to take the first step…it might be hard, it might be a bit scary, but once you do it, there is no going back. You are now have the confidence to take on the next project and any other thing that comes your way.

His other recent posts include Hawaii’s Big Island, a beautiful look at his travels to Hawaii and Setting Up A New Sawmill, where he shows us exactly what took place when his new sawmill was delivered to the homestead.

How To Set Up A Worm Bin By @Quochuy

Next we have a post from @quochuy who just joined Steemit this month. He is a senior web developer who blogs about worm farming, gardening, kombucha making, raising black soldier flys and also posts some delicious looking recipes. He says he “fell in love with worms after doing some research and discovering that there is a whole world behind the process, including biology, microbiology, chemistry, wood working, etc.” and now is known as “The Little Worm Farmer” because of his humble worm farming operation.

His featured post today is about setting up a Worm Compost Bin. He has made an amazing photo tutorial showing us step by step how to set the bin up for the best results. He covers everything from Aeration, Drainage, Location Set Up, and an in-depth look into the bedding material needed. I found his post extremely well written and full of information, a great tutorial for anyone interesting in vermicomposting.

His other recent posts include How To Feed Compost Worms, a follow up to his featured post about what to do after you have your worms, and How To Build An Aerated Compost Tea Brewer, which is full of great tips and tricks.

Building A Wood Shed With Roundwood By @gogreenbuddy

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Now let’s take a look at another Homesteader that also joined Steemit this month, @gogreenbuddy. He writes about a variety of interesting topics including chicken keeping, foraging, permaculture, smoking meats at home, recipes, crypto, wood working and everything homesteading. His posts give us great tips on how to become more “green” by using locally sourced, sometimes free material, and by making things yourself instead of buying them. He currently runs a website about permaculture and homesteading and has recently made the switch from Youtube to our very own Dtube. He, like many homesteaders, is just working towards being self sufficient while also being eco friendly.

His featured post today is a dtube video of how he built a woodshed using round wood, which he gathered from his property. Woodworking is a small community on steemit but one full of very talented individuals like @gogreenbuddy. I believe the skills they are teaching are vital to any homesteader and hope to get even more of an audience for them. In this post, he gives us a video tour of the wood shed, plus the benefits of why round wood produces an even stronger finished product than store bought lumber and walks us through his process to create it.

His other recent posts include Making An Axe Handle, a step by step tutorial of how to make your own instead of buying a new one, and Eating Roasted Bones Like A Caveman, where he explains to us the health benefits of bone marrow and recipes of how to use them.

The Homesteaders Handbook - Raising Chickens By @walkerland

Next up, one of my favorite writers on Steemit, @walkerland who joined Steemit in June of 2017. She has a poetic way of writing her posts that always draws me in, I was hooked after reading the first one. She writes that she is “building a greener, more beautiful world one seed at a time." While her posts are well written and informative covering topics such as homesteading, gardening, frugal living, cooking from scratch, beautiful food photography and preserving food... you should see her pantry, it’s a homesteaders dream.

Her featured post today is the final part of her complete series- The Homesteaders Handbook: Raising Chickens, which is a book she has written and decided to graciously share with us here on Steemit. She “decided to give the knowledge away here on Steemit where it may help those looking to get into raising chickens.” I have read many books and online blogs on raising chickens, and this series is by far the most in depth, well written one I have ever come across. In she goes over coop cleanliness, human health while keeping chickens, predators and protection, wing clipping, free range options among other important ways to keep your chickens happy and healthy.

Her other recent posts include Cold Hardy Perennial Food Shrubs and Trees, an informational look into her favorite perennial plants and why she chooses them, and The Homestead at Night, a beautiful long exposure photography shot of their homestead. Make sure to also read Parts 1-3 of her keeping chickens series, you can find their links here in her featured post.

Apple Pie Scoby Gummies By @harvardhomestead

Finally, Let me introduce you to a Steemian who I believe is a force to be reckoned with, @harvardhomestead. She joined Steemit in December 2017 and has been producing great content ever since. She writes on her blog that she is “Taking full responsibility for life by growing food, creating shelter, generating energy, and living within nature’s cycles.” Her posts cover a large range of topics including daily farm life, livestock, gardening, medicine making as well as making your own leather boots… I know, I told you she was good.

Her post we are featuring today is an amazing tutorial of what to do with extra Scoby. Scoby is an acronym for “Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria” and is what transforms sweet tea into that delicious fizzy Kombucha we all love. The “problem” is that Scoby is always reproducing itself, and if you make Kombucha frequently…it can get a bit overwhelming. Many individuals give them away to friends or to their livestock…but eventually you might have some you are desperate to do something with. That is why I was so thrilled to find her post, she has come up with such an amazing, delicious and nutritious use for it. She takes us step by step how to make delicious gummies that are a treat for adults and kids alike.

Her recent posts also include One Week Of Dairy, showcasing the items she has made with the milk from her Jersey Cow, Rosie and Stewarding Sweetgrass, a look into why she has decided to start a relationship with the medicinal herb and how she plans to do so in the most sustainable way possible. She also has a pretty interesting story about how she came to be a homesteader, so make sure to read her introduction.

This concludes the first edition of Helpie’s Homesteading Curation Report. We hope you will go and read the featured Steamians blogs and show them the love that their hardwork deserves. We believe it is important for us to lift up good content on Steemit to help further grow the platform as a whole.

We are constantly searching for good content that deserves to be in the spotlight. If you come across a Homesteading post that you believe is worthy of promotion in this weekly report, feel free to tag @llfarms in the comments or send a DM message over discord.

Thank you so much for reading and Happy Homesteading,

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Curation Report Written By @llfarms