Thank you for all of your lovely comments of support on our initial post! I am glad many of you were pleasantly grateful to have your valuable work resteemed!!

@the-hearth is all about Showcasing Earth-Centered Posts & Boosting You who:

• Write so hard

• Create such fantastic content that needs a better audience....

• Pour your heart into your visions that you're overflowing onto Steemit

• Share such practical, timely advice that I SO want the majority of people on Steemit to see daily...

Without further ado, welcome to:

Week 1 Curation

Showcasing some of Steemit's best earth-centered posts with high quality content.

@sagescrub's From Grass to a Vegetable Polyculture - My 2nd Suburban Garden - Part 1

Have you ever wondered how to transition a suburban lawn in short order into a veritable budding permaculture paradise? Look no further than @sagescrub's fantastically detailed account of how he did just that.

Next up is @fernowl13's very informative post on American Ginseng – Cash crop, medicine and more.

Many of us on the homestead or those of us who garden are looking for cash crops. You know, those ones that actually make money without us breaking a back or leg! Ginseng has long been an overharvested crop around the world, but it's also such an important medicine that deserves to be cultivated. It's definitely worth you while!

Next up for curation is @my-permaculture's In Depth Final Design Exercise Permaculture Design for my 2017 Geoff Lawton online PDC 2.0..

Whether you have had the pleasure of taking a Permaculture Design Course or not, @my-permaculture lays it all out for you! In this post he details the unfolding design for his land and gives great analysis of his property. We want more permaculture ideas to be free to the public and Mortiz has done us all a service by sharing his with exquisite detail!

Next we have the lovely and inspiring @schoonercreek with

New at our Farm for 2018: Crypto as Accepted Payment Method!.

She is the real deal. She dyes, she weaves, she grows, she mothers and so much more! Did you know that she's also a full-time market gardener with a CSA! And not only that, but she is accepting cryptocurrencies as payment and has already received her first payment with Litecoin. @schoonercreek is shedding fantastic light on cryptocurrencies and literally changing the face of them. It is small business owners like her that allow cryptocurrencies to meet the public face to face and educate and involve them. Way to go!

Next up we have @bobaphet who is treating his cancer with an herbal salve called Black Salve

Treating My Skin Cancer with Black Salve. Daily Report – Day 0.

We definitely want to boost the message of alternative healing, especially with things like cancer so his post is very inspiring to us. We hope you'll keep sharing your journey!

Next up we have @dartistdreams, who is a newer steemian so please show them some love! Three Sisters Gardening Method - Background and Theory w/ Adaptations.

Three sisters gardening guild is an old classic that everyone should have knowledge of! Thanks for writing an inspiring and informative post!

Next up we have @bobydimitrov's A blossoming garden is an invitation for seed saving!

A seed saver myself, I want people to know how easy it is to seed save! Boby does just that in this wonderfully colorful and inspiring post!

Last but not least, we have a fantastically detailed post by @slhomestead on How to Make 100% Whole Wheat SOURDOUGH BREAD.

I'm sure there are many of you wondering how to do that and this is an excellent tutorial with Step by Step process and video! Enjoy!

Contest:

Also, @mountainjewel is holding a contest this week with a 15 Steem prize!

CONTEST: Younger Than Yesteryear | 15 Steem Giveaway!!

Read the post for full guidelines, but the gist is to take a photo from when you were younger and REMAKE it as an adult! We're doing this for the fun of it!

Tag @the-hearth in a post's tag, comments or text and we will see it!

We'll search the tag throughout the week, as well as peruse the #homesteading, #gardening, #permaculture and other tags per usual!

We want to be Steemit's source of earth-centered curation!

Thanks for stopping by for our 1st Week!

Suggestions, feedback, support, encouragement, delegations all welcome in the comments or find us on Discord.