Like mushrooms emerging after the rains, the Foraging Trail is back! Steemit has some stellar foragers! If you are interested in foraging, come on into this report to learn more about the Foaging Trail and Steemit foragers, and appreciate nature's bounty!
This is a long-awaited 7th update about the great posts being curated on the 
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.
21 Great Steemit Foraging Posts
It's been an embarrassingly long 3 months since the 6th report on the SteemTrail Foraging Trail. Blame the curator, 
The Foraging Trail aims to discover new authors posting original foraging content and to support the community's regular authors, too. Right now,
This is the 7th published list of curated foraging posts. Some great things to note about this list of posts. There are 21 posts from 11 different people, with 2 authors new to the
There is incredible value in these 21 posts! If you haven’t seen them yet, I urge you to read them. Even though the payout period is closed for these posts, you can still make comments on them. I strongly encourage you to leave your foraging questions and comments in these posts. That’s how we learn and get to know each other. And check out the blogs for these authors, too, to see what they've been doing recently.
These 21 foraging posts generated $289.70 in total payouts to authors and curators, for an average payout of $13.80 per post, although that's dominated by results from one or two authors. With all the bots and vote trails, reporting on the upvotes generated by these posts doesn't have much meaning anymore. Instead, because the
What about community interaction? These posts had 379 comments, or over 18 comments/post on average. And this was happening at a time of low activity of Steemit! How does 18 comments/post compare to what you are creating or reading?
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 Curated Posts
| Author | Post | Payout | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
 | The Incredible Properties of Sowthistle | $39.07 | 18 |
 | Some Mushrooms in My Region, Italy | $2.78 | 118 |
 | Urban Survival Series - Tulips | $31.06 | 10 |
| Wild Pancakes from a Shrub, a Tree, a Tuber and a Weed | $4.11 | 19 |
 | Mushrooms in the Woods | $0.23 | 5 |
| How to Express More Love for Less Money | $42.80 | 20 |
| It's the Season for Mushrooms | $0.00 | 5 |
| A Free Meal - for Chickens | $36.90 | 31 |
 | Sugar Maple Sugar Shack | $23.52 | 15 |
 | Wood Ears Tree Mushrooms | $18.12 | 4 |
| Wild Salad for a Dime | $41.59 | 21 |
 | Nettle Soup | $0.23 | 13 |
 | Hidden Treasures of Food and Drink | $0.50 | 13 |
| Urban Survival Series - Wild Edibles | $2.10 | 28 |
| It's a Cane, but not as we know it | $0.49 | 4 |
 | Sandwich with Dandelion Greens | $0.34 | 10 |
| Wild Edibles Scavenger Hunt Contest | $6.41 | 74 |
| The Life of A Maverick | $3.99 | 16 |
| The Edible Outdoors - Redbud | $30.24 | 25 |
 | Making Dandelion Wine | $0.25 | 3 |
| A Gift from Another Steemian | $2.27 | 17 |
What's Next
Now that the Foraging Trail is active again, it will be upvoting quality foraging posts. And there will be other activities, too - contests, badges, and more!
There's more than a lifetime's worth of learning about foraging for food and crafts, so we can all learn from each other -- and be inspired to get out to appreciate nature's bounty. Even if you have never foraged for anything, your thoughts about foraging are valued here on the Foraging Trail!
Let's make Steemit 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 about the Steemit Foraging community and guidelines for being upvoted by the
- Support the creators making quality foraging posts by upvoting them when they get resteemed by the
- Volunteer with SteemTrail to help curate posts about Foraging. If you want to help, join the Foraging-Trail on Discord
- Stay tuned for updates. If you follow
I hope to see you on the Foraging Trail! Happy Foraging!
Note: All author rewards from this post will be used to fund