Want to Know What The Team Are Looking for In Your Posts? A Word From Some of Our Curators! [Part 1]

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##### Our curators at Natural Medicine are always busy trying to find support for your work. Sometimes people ask us why they didn't get a vote, as if JUST writing a post warrants a reward, but those that have been here for a while know it's not that simple. Our curators have very diverse 'health' interests, from natural medicines to mindfulness, earth medicine and natural homesteading practices, forest bathing and wildcrafting, cannabis and everything in between. Some of us are OCD & Curangel curators, and all of us are on the lookout for ways we can reward you. In this post three of our curators explain what their interests areas are, what they love, and even what they don't. We hope you enjoy this little insight into each curator's 'natural medicine' focus.

### @Riverflows Whilst I don't do many curation posts (only when I have time and the whim takes me!) I do spend a lot of time looking for OCD candidates, posts to share on Twitter and posts worthy of upvotes and tips. I'm personally interested in herbal medicine and homesteading. I really love it when people take the leap to experiment with herbs and plants for their home medicine cabinet, talk about plants they've found in the wild, concoct recipes out of foraged food, or talk about their personal experiences with plants. My pet hate is any posts titled 'The Health Benefits of....' - I find them a little dull, and they often simply repeat stuff I can easily find on the internet. I also appreciate any posts that are really well formatted and researched - for example, @choogirl wrote a great post about gut microbiome and the COVID vaccine which was really well backed up with evidence. I'm not really looking for people to be experts or authorities, I'm looking for stories, stuff that moves and inspires me. I'm also pretty keen on supporting #mentalhealthawareness, and I like to encourage #yoga posts as well. Oh and #plantbased food. Actually, I kinda like all kinds of natural medicines!

**This week @riverflows really enjoyed @owasco's post about her experiments with natural medicine, such as these tinctures.** 📷@owasco. 📷 ### @justinparke ### I publish the weekly **Plant Power** curation, where I feature the most delicious and healthy #plantbased recipes from within our community and beyond. Not limiting myself to exclusively recipe posts, I browse mostly #vegan #vegetarian, #plantbased, #foraging, #plantmedicine, and #herbalism tags published with the #naturalmedicine tag. Preference is given to high-quality posts published from the NaturalMedicine.io frontend and/or our the Natural Medicine Hive Community. Sometimes I explore beyond our community to find new chefs unaware their content is perfect for #naturalmedicine. I'm open to a wide variety of content also, even a post about your favorite market to score quality vegetables or what wild edibles you can forage in your area are all of interest to me. I love engaging clear photography and the clever use of markdown, all which can make a post stand out from the rest. A bit of a story and personal experience can also bring some uniqueness to the post, whether the subject matter be "vegan leather" or "how to remove toxins from cassava leaves." [

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**This week @justinparke really ate up @carolynstahl's post about her super-duper Vegan Caesar Salad With Tempeh. 📷 @carolynstahl** ### @minismallholding ### Once a week, all being well, I do the Lotus Garden newsletter. This newsletter started out on the Homesteaders' Co-op, but with the retirement of this project, the best fit was Natural Medicine and the newsletter migrated here with a lovely new title. Being mostly #homesteading and #gardening related, my first focus is on those topics. My favourite posts are those which we can learn something from and will help others to learn homesteading skills from. I'll usually try to include a recipe in the features, whether it's for a meal, dessert or preserving the harvest. I like a post which covers a topic thoroughly or teaches a valuable skill or tip. This doesn't necessarily mean it has to be a long post, *although I can probably get further curation on the longer ones.* What I don't like is a post which shows an end result, but explains little or nothing about how you personally got there. Yes, we know compost is important for plants and helps them to grow well, but how do you produce it? Your pictures of plants and how they're doing are lovely, but tell us a bit more about how you got them to that point. Also, I like to see a post which has personal experiences behind it rather than something factual that can be found with an internet search. Even if the experience was a failure, there is often something to be learnt from it, so do be afraid to share it.

**This week @minismallholding enjoyed @blackberryskunk's post about seeds, seedlings soil and pest control, explaining what she does in her garden. 📷@blackberryskunk.** ### Next week, we hope the rest of our curators have time in their busy curation schedule to share with you what they're loving in your posts! ##### In other news... - The miners are out - get them while they're hot! - The February challenge is now over - we're taking ideas for the March challenge! - We're getting a fancy pants new landing page - keep using www.naturalmedicine.io to be the first to see! - Welcome to @karmadorje, our new yoga curator - catch his curation at @lotusshares, along with @drrune's amazing editorial on everything astral, The Orerry! - If you have a curation idea you'd like to pitch, and publish on @lotushares in exchange for HIVE, please get in touch! - We've waived compulsory delegation for our Discord, but we really appreciate your delegation to our community to help build our foundation and nourish everyone posting on health & wellness on HIVE! ### Enjoy the rest of your weekend, and happy LOTUS hiving!

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