Hello Steemit

My name is Dave and I am a Business Development Executive in the wonderful world of IT. I'm based in Johannesburg, South Africa. I was introduced to Steemit through @jacor who I met at a recent golf day. I've been wanting to learning about blockchain & cryptocurrency for quite some time, but haven't found a good way to do it...until Steemit arrived in my life. 

So, here I am...ready to learn what this is all about. I am a social person by nature and also very much an extrovert and so what better may to learn about blockchain than through a blockchain-based social media platform. 

I am interested in many things and currently trying to focus my energies. I love to grow, make, build stuff particularly in the context of sustainability. I am married with 2 small children and so finding time for all the fun stuff has been tough. I am hoping that in trying to extend my professional knowledge and I can rope the family into the stories I intend telling here. I'll focus my interactions on a few different things:

• Growing Vegetables and Fruit - for my family and also our soon-to-be launched small business(es)
• Craft Beer - I am a novice having only made a couple of batches thus far
• Cooking in general - it's my greatest passion
• Vermiculture - that supports all of the above (ok, maybe not the beer)
• Daily life as a Dad

Growing up I was never good with my pocket money - I would spend it quickly and then have nothing left for the rest of the month. I have decided to make sure my two boys learn the value of money early in their lives; particularly compound interest and investment. So, we are going to start a small business selling chilli sauce and biltong. My eldest son is able to help and so he will. We're going to grow the chilli's ourselves, develop the recipe(s), market and sell the sauce and then invest our profits into an education fund, his own savings account and also into the business. The same goes for the biltong...except we will purchase the meat rather than start a cattle farm! 

My Steemit journey will focus on documenting this journey.

Here's a few pics of our first test batch of chilli sauce that we made.

 

Here's to hoping we all learn something.