Some weeks ago I discovered that there is a place that lets me

Make something real out of STEEM:

homesteaders coop/ Hive account@homesteaderscoop.

I wanted those chickpeas from Hive account@bghandmade, so I started to save up 8 STEEM. After mentioning the idea in a post support came in:
Biggest thanks go to Hive account@akipponn who didn't hesitate to transfer 4 STEEM in support of the project.
Also thanks to generous votes from Hive account@c0ff33a, Hive account@prinzvalium, Hive account@vander, Hive account@streetstyle, Hive account@irreverent-dan, Hive account@nikokafka, Hive account@tonyz, Hive account@fcdvpds, Hive account@silverbug, Hive account@rossfletcher, just to mention a few (and thanks also for the continous votes!).

So, I had the 8 STEEM and headed over to homesteaders
coop's shop, just to discover that I still can't afford postage...
And that's when it really turned beautiful:
I received this message from Hive account@bghandmade:

I went over and ordered! Next I read this post on their blog. The whole family worked together sorting, counting and packaging! I felt that I had become part of something special, and something indeed special did arrive today:


Aren't they absolutely beautiful?!
Thanks to Hive account@sagescrub and Hive account@bobydimitrov for making this possibe!

So now they are going into the soil, and if everything goes well I will have
earned food by posting my pictures, making STEEM and spending it.
This is so real!

And who knows, maybe the crypto-chickpeas will make history? I hope not like the 1 BTC Pizza, but rather as:

THE PROOF-OF-CHICKPEAS!

^{I'll keep you updated on the progress of the #cryptopeas!}