Helpie’s Homesteading Curation Report

Third Edition

Welcome to the Third Edition of the Helpie Homesteading Curation Report! As many of you may know, this is a weekly report where we feature some great content coming out of the homesteading community. Since homesteading covers are large range of topics including- gardening, raising livestock, wood working, beekeeping, sustainable living practices, permaculture, making your own products and a variety of other things. Individuals do not necessarily need to be using the “Homesteading” tag to qualify for this curation, they just need to be producing great content that could be used on a Homestead or be Homestead related. Our goal is to find those individuals that are producing quality content, and raise them up to help them grow on the platform. We do this by featuring these Steemians and their posts each week here, hoping to help them reach a larger audience, all while paying them the post payout of this report for the great content they have produced. The idea is to find those hidden gems that are not getting the recognition they deserve, and lift them in any way we can. We need your help though! Please make sure you go to each of these amazing individuals’ blogs and give them the love and support their top quality content deserves. We believe that lifting up this great content and their creators is the best way to help the Steemit Platform grow and improve as a whole.

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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).
  
  
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This Week's Featured Steemians

My Very First DIY Hydroponics System By @Nerdi

First up this week is @nerdi who is from The Netherlands and just started Steemit this month. She is an urban homesteader who is growing her own food without a traditional garden. She has an amazing roof top hydroponics system that she uses to grow her own food while enjoying some amazing sunsets. She also works as a independent contractor and says she “loves to share her knowledge and help others learn new things.” Her interests include hydroponics, camping, photography, information analysis, programming, urban gardening travel and new technology. Her posts are extremely well written, full of information, and have amazing photos as well. Even though she is brad new, I am thoroughly impressed with her posts so far, and I am very excited to see what she has in store for us.

Her featured post today is a step by step guide of how she built her first hydroponics system using the “kratky” method. She tells us that she had been trying to grow her own food for years without success, writing it off to her “black thumb.” Then one day she stumbled upon an article that introduced her to hydroponics and changed her way of thinking, since then she has been successfully growing her own food using this method. The tutorial is very easy to follow with vibrant pictures along the way. The best part is the small scale, this could seriously be done anywhere. She hopes that this will help encourage other to get started even if they may have thought it wasn’t possible before.


Her other recent posts include Grow Your Own Series #1: Oyster Mushrooms, where she shows us an extremely easy way to start growing our own mushrooms and Simplest Hydroponics System To Start With, her first steepshot of her window sill garden.

Mullein The Miracle Plant By @medicinewheel

Our next featured Steemian is @medicinewheel who joined Steemit in February of this year. He started out like many of us do, he was living in the city…but something didn’t quite feel right to him, he felt out of place and disconnected. Then he came upon a little piece of land deep in the hills where he is now working with the land to establish his off grid homestead, and ultimately finding himself again. He says he has “seen fantastic things, had incredible experiences, and look forward to sharing them with the Steemit community…and learning from you, together we have the opportunity to enrich each other’s lives.” I feel like that is such an important attitude of this wonderful Steemit community, share the knowledge you have and learn from others…it’s what sets this platform apart from other “social media” platforms and am thrilled to see someone like @medicinewheel here.

His featured post today is an in depth look into Mullein, a medicinal herb that is a personal favorite of mine. He tells us how anyone can find a use for this common “weed”, while giving us the history and it’s many benefits. This post is filled to the brim with tips, tricks and ideas on how to use this beautiful plant that grows almost anywhere. The use of medicinal herbs is something that we as humans have been doing since ancient times, and I for one and glad to see more individuals embracing them once again. You might have these amazing herbs growing in your very own backyard, so hurry over to @medicinewheel and find out more.

His other recent posts include Harvest Time For The World Most Valuable Spice-Saffron, where he shows us where this decadent spice comes from and how to harvest it yourself. Plus Medicine Garden With Diy Seed Starter Pots, where he shows us how he made his own seed starter containers out of recycled material.

Insecticide Ban To Save The Bees- Is It Necessary By @powellx5

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Now let’s take a look at @powellx5 who joined Steemit in November of 2017. Shari writes about a wonderful variety of topics including beekeeping, gardening, keeping chickens, and medicinal herbs. She calls herself a “Book addict, crafter and suburban homesteader." She has some wonderfully written posts about herbs that not only include the history and medicinal use of the herbs, but also some delicious recipes to include them in as well. Shari and her husband are currently gathering the skills to help them become full time homesteaders in the near future. She says “The force driving us to homestead is our desire to work really hard to live a healthier, simple life. We’re ready to work side in an effort to provide for ourselves, and at the end of the day be thankful and proud.”

Her featured post today is a thorough, detailed and sometimes hilarious look at what is behind this “inconclusive” research into the effects that pesticides may have on bees (and other pollinators) that are so important to our ecosystem. Her post is full of factual information written in a way that keeps you hooked to the very end. While I personally think that this subject is a very important one and should be considered by anyone trying to grow their own food, her writing style in this post is what won me over. I believe she is one of those individuals that can write with such a flow that readers just cannot look away.

Her other recent posts include Nasturtium-Delicious Vegetable, Versatile Medicinal, a detailed description of the herb with recipes as well and #metalweekend Revealing Something About Me, a fun look at some of her favorite metal songs.

This concludes the Third 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 hard work 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.

Our goal is to help these Steemians grow on the platform, and to help them do just that the SPD rewards received on this post payout will be paid directly to the featured authors. We believe this is the only fair way to curate these individuals content. We hope that if you choose to use these blogs in a post of your own, that you will join us in paying them for their content.

Thank you so much for reading and Happy Homesteading,

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