The past two weeks show it -- there are plenty of people here on Steemit interested in foraging! Check out the first report from the Foraging-Trail.
Introduction
The Foraging-Trail is a SteemTrail project to grow an engaged community of people within Steemit, who are interested in foraging for food and crafts. That means making posts and comments where we all can learn, share our thoughts about foraging, and show our field trips, harvests, and what we do with nature’s wild bounty.
The long-term goal is that people will join Steemit to be part of specific communities – like Foraging - because they are so active, engaging, and supportive. Focused Steemit communities will provide more structure for getting new people connected easily, without drifting away in confusion or frustration.
The First Two Weeks – Discovering Steemit Foragers
This first two weeks of the Foraging-Trail has focused on setting up a curation process with SteemTrail. It also helped to discover new content creators posting original foraging content, and give them greater exposure and rewards. Certainly, some posts that should have been added to the foraging-trail were missed, but the curation process should go more smoothly after this first two weeks. Right now, @haphazard-hstead is the only curator. If you are interested in helping out, join the steemtrail chat channel!
This is the first published list of curated foraging posts. Some great things to note about this list. Look at how many foraging posts there were in two weeks – 24 posts from 15 different people.
There is incredible value in these 24 posts! If you haven’t seen them yet, I urge you to read and upvote them – they are all still within their 30-day earnings period. And I encourage you to leave some comments. That’s how we learn and get to know each other.
These 24 foraging posts generated 3758 upvotes and $230.40 in total payouts, for an average post payout of $9.60 to authors and curators, with an average of 157 upvotes/post.
What about community interaction? These posts had 260 comments, or nearly 11 comments/post on average. How does 11 comments/post compare to what you are creating or reading? And foraging posts are getting shared, with 24 total reblogs in addition to being resteemed on the @foraging-trail page.
Congratulations to all the authors! Thank you, everyone, for your upvotes and support of these posts. Please consider following the many authors whose work is featured here. If you follow the @foraging-trail, too, you can see the curation in real time, easily upvote the curated posts to support our Steemit foraging writers, and you won’t miss some great foraging posts. Don’t forget to comment and upvote comments as well – it really shows appreciation of each other within our community.
Foraging-Trail Curated Posts
Some other accomplishments - Foraging posts are getting a lot of attention here on Steemit, if not as much reward as they should. The Foraging tag was among the top 100 highest average payout tags and the top 100 most active tags, with the most replies, at least once in the last two weeks, in the series by @ultimus. Some of the individual posts showed up in the top 25 posts by net votes with rewards less than 10 SBD, in the advanced steem metrics series by @ontofractal. And some appeared in the series by @screenname that identifies the most undervalued posts on Steemit.
What's Next
Over the next two weeks, let’s keep the momentum going! We are on our way to becoming the premier foraging community on the Internet. How can you help?
- Start writing about foraging topics and post them with the Foraging tag! You can find out more here and here.
- Support the creators making posts with the Foraging tag by upvoting and/or commenting.
- Volunteer with SteemTrail to help curate posts about Foraging. If you want to help, let us know in the steemtrail chat channel!
- Stay tuned for updates. If you follow @foraging-trail, you’ll see them.
Starting today, know your post has been curated by Foraging-Trail if you see this image in your comments.
Upvoted by @foraging-trail 
Thank you for following and upvoting @foraging-trail
Note: All author rewards from this post will be used to fund @foraging-trail.
This post has been ranked within the top 25 most undervalued posts in the first half of Nov 10. We estimate that this post is undervalued by $10.31 as compared to a scenario in which every voter had an equal say.
See the full rankings and details in The Daily Tribune: Nov 10 - Part I. You can also read about some of our methodology, data analysis and technical details in our initial post.
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