Helpie's Homesteading Curation Report #15 - By Helpie Curator @llfarms

helpie (65)in #helpie • 6 years ago

Helpie’s Homesteading Curation Report

Fifteenth Edition

Welcome to the weekly Helpie Homesteading Curation Report, where we feature some amazing content creators coming out of the Homesteading Community. Our goal is to find those individuals that are producing high quality content and raise them up to help them grow.

We do this by featuring them here to introduce them to all of you lovely people. We hope this helps to get them a larger audience, therefore getting them the recognition we think their wonderful content deserves.

Then, because we think it is important to give credit where credit is due, we split this reports payout between the featured authors. We believe this is the only fair way to curate these individuals content that they have worked so hard on. 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 as well.

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 favorites 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 have a Fine Arts Curation Report in addition to this Homesteading Curation, and hope to add more 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 Helpie’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.}

All featured authors will split the SPD reward of this post, because we believe it’s important to pay authors for their content they worked so hard on. Please make sure you check out their blogs as well!

This Week's Featured Steemians

Transplanting Wild Purple Garlic Part 1

By @Phedizzle

Phedizzle takes us on a journey of how she discovered wild garlic growing on her homestead. She then carefully identified and moved it to a better location, giving her the ability to have more control over the growth and harvest. I found this post not only informative, but also a reminder of the amazing resources we have around us. There are many local, wild edibles that we can forage and also transplant into our gardens. This is something I’m working on for wild herbs here, but this post inspired me to be on the looked for other wild growing edibles as well.

Now I can plant those this fall in a more permanent garlic location. From bulbils it will take a few seasons to get good sized heads of garlic. What's great is they are a perennial. Once established in their new home, they will grow back every year with minimal, if any, work.

I think this is an important step towards self reliance, finding and identifying those local edibles around us to take full advantage of our natural resources.

Could It Be A Magnesium Deficiency??

By @Brewcitygardner

@Brewcitygardner is growing his vegetables in hay bales and is showing us, through very well produced videos, exactly how he does it. This is a technique I’m seeing pop up more and more and really enjoying learning about the specifics from him. In today’s video he shows us how he has identified certain mineral deficiencies in his plants and how he goes about fixing them, while also doing some updates on his current germination experiment. He is fun to watch, and full of great information.

Brewcitygardner is all about self reliance and sustainability through real life skills, assets and sound money practices. Skills - Seeds - Silver and Gold

In this episode we finally get to our great chard experiment to test the germination and growth for two different methods of sowing in the straw bales. I also show you what a nitrogen and magnesium deficiency looks like and remedy the problem.

It’s a great video that is a fun to watch as it is informative.

Making Carbonated Soda (Pop) At Home (Easy! No special equipment needed!)

By @Walkerland

If you have been following this curation report for awhile you’ll know that @walkerland is one of my favorite Steemit homesteaders. Why? Well, she puts together the most amazing posts that are not only a pleasure to read, but complimented with her beautiful photography. She shares her tips and tricks with us for new and unique things to make on the homestead and she focuses on sourcing items herself, which is extremely important for us on the journey to self sustainability. Her posts are full of stunning photos and well written, clear directions; making it easy to try these recipes ourselves!
In today’s post she shows us how to make a fizzy soda from items straight out of our garden. How wonderful is that?

Soda from the garden bounty
Yesterday I decided to make a batch with rhubarb next up will be raspberry and blackberry when the bushes finally fruit! I can't wait. Just think of all the possibilities: lemon, orange, rhubarb, blueberry, blackberry, raspberry, grape ... oh my! Goodness you could even make it with carrots or vegetables (I'll have to give that a whirl at some point).

This recipe looks so easy to make and has me thinking about what elements I can add to it from my own garden. So many possibilities!

This concludes the fifteenth edition of Helpie’s Weekly Homesteading Curation Report. We need your help in lifting these wonderful Steemians, so please 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.}

Thank you so much for reading and Happy Homesteading,