My 2 Year Anniversary - January 23, 2020 @goldenoakfarm

It all started with this post on January 23, 2018:

About My Farm and Myself
@goldenoakfarm in homesteading • 2 years ago

“As I lay under the warm quilt in bed this morning at 4AM, listening to the wind as it roared around the house, I thought about how to write my introduction. I often lay warm under the covers after waking and think about what I need to do during the coming day. It’s even better if it’s cold and I can hear the wind or rain outside the open window. The security of being warm when it’s cold outside.”

I’d worked up topics for 90 days under Headings like:

● Gardens Day on Sundays – 1st Post: https://steemit.com/growingginger/@goldenoakfarm/growing-a-little-spice-in-your-life

● Herb Fascination on Wednesdays – 1st Post: https://steemit.com/growingherbs/@goldenoakfarm/herb-fascination-echinacea

Violets for Violet Jelly - April 2017

● Recipe Day on Fridays – 1st Post: https://steemit.com/cooking/@goldenoakfarm/recipe-day-beef-stew

● Chickens Day on Saturdays – 1st Post: https://steemit.com/chickenflock/@goldenoakfarm/building-our-flock-with-breed-blocks

● Humor Day every other Thursday – 1st Post: https://steemit.com/pigs/@goldenoakfarm/how-to-put-up-a-piggy-dripper

I did a second #introduceyourself post on February 26 in response to requests for my story:

https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@goldenoakfarm/a-2nd-intro-or-how-i-got-started-growing-my-own-food

So I posted nearly every day for the first 90 days.

Butchershop bay window – September 2010

Some were about building projects:

● https://steemit.com/homesteading/@goldenoakfarm/the-smokehouse

● https://steemit.com/homesteading/@goldenoakfarm/new-house-plans-may-23-2019-goldenoakfarm

Newborn heifer August 31, 2018

Or our beef cattle:

● https://steemit.com/homesteading/@goldenoakfarm/a-calf-is-born

Or farm information:

● https://steemit.com/homesteading/@goldenoakfarm/revitalizing-the-10-acre-piece

● https://steemit.com/homesteading/@goldenoakfarm/momma-bear-and-cubs-june-22-2019

Or history:

● https://steemit.com/homesteading/@goldenoakfarm/history-of-the-farm

Dehydrating rose, sage, and plantain May 2018

Or kitchen lore:

● https://steemit.com/homesteading/@goldenoakfarm/making-kefir-for-health

● https://steemit.com/homesteading/@goldenoakfarm/annual-june-inventory-june-21-2019-goldenoakfarm

Or miscellaneous things:

● https://steemit.com/pets/@goldenoakfarm/life-with-a-geriatric-cat

● https://steemit.com/homesteading/@goldenoakfarm/brush-hill-farm-june-8-2019-goldenoakfarm

Over the last 2 years I’ve had lulls where I was too busy to post, usually in midsummer. But I’ve always resumed posting regularly within a few months.

There were a lot of people in the homesteading community when I first started. Many disappeared when Steem started losing value. I miss many of them. I had not joined Steemit to make money but rather to use it as a platform to write about what I was doing on the homestead.

I’d been doing this on FB but they started blocking my posts from people seeing them. So when I heard about Steemit from @Hillsboroughhomestead and how she made money posting on Steemit, I set about trying to figure out how to post.

I tried doing contests and so forth that first year, but I really didn’t like doing that kind of thing. I just wanted to post about my life on the homestead. My posts serve another purpose: memory. Lyme disease has trashed my memory and by writing posts of what I do, I have a record I can go back and read.

I am a highly visual person, so my posts tend to have a lot of photos. This also helps with the memory.

When Steem got really low, I just started powering up and did not take anything out. I only took money out a couple times within the first 4 months of 2018, and then never again. I just exceed 2000 SP yesterday. But the earning is not very important to me. I just want to post.

So my journey on Steemit is different from what I read others have done in their time on this platform. But I am happy with what I do, and I like reading what other write or create. I am grateful there’s a Steemit platform I can do it on.