This is our monthly community delegation report. Our initial call for delegations was mid-December 2018. Since then we have already received many generous delegations from within our community, as well as from folks that saw what we are doing and want to support our efforts.

We are proud of the fact that our delegations are coming without the promise of financial incentive. Rather our delegators are supporting our effort based on what we stand for and the value we are adding to steem and to our communities.

At the time of writing this we have received:

22,813 SP in delegations

Thank you very much delegators!

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Thank you to @yabapmatt who last month generously delegated 10,000 SP to @homesteaderscoop! Wow! Thank you for your support of our community @yabapmatt!

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Special thank you to @papa-pepper, @pennsif, @yabapmatt, @diggndeeper.com, @allcapsonezero, and @realself who continue to maintain extremely generous delegations to @homesteaderscoop. Thank you for your continued support!

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Our use of delegations to support our community is fully transparent and is outlined below.

Here is what we are currently doing with our Steem Power:

Voting for Contributors

Our contributors are our leaders and our voices. They in part are helping steer where we are headed as a community. They are helping to highlight our vendors, explain our ethics, spur relevant discussions and engage steem as official ambassadors of our marketplace. Our contributors are receiving both beneficiary payout from our @homesteaderscoop blog as well as up-votes on their individual accounts in recognition of their team efforts.

Voting for Vendors

Our vendors are steem individuals and families that are dedicated to sustainability in their lives. Many are willing to put their financial security on the line to do so - or go to extra lengths in order to make ends meet while they pursue sustainability. Our up-votes to our vendors are meant to help provide some additional reward for our vendors as a thank you for choosing to incorporate some aspect of sustainability and/or ethical care of the earth into their lifestyle and business choices.

Voting for Excellent Community Posts

Our community account is being managed by our group of Contributors. We are sharing the responsibility of voting, commenting and re-steeming. We each take turns on a weekly basis. Our contributors will identify and up-vote excellent posts in the realm of sustainability, homesteading, gardening and related topics. We may up-vote other community members and we also make an effort to up-vote content that does a nice job of highlighting Homesteaders Co-op and supporting of our vision and mission.

Voting for Charitable Organizations

We are sending up-votes to @pennsif's @adollaraday charity which supports directing charitable donations to many "on the ground" charities.

Further we are up-voting @familyprotection's comments to support @canadiancoconut's work to keep families and their children together.

Voting for Top Delegators

We are up-voting posts by our top delegators of 1000 or more Steem Power as a thank you for the significant community support.

Voting on our own Posts for Growth

We are shamelessly voting on our own posts in order to continue to grow our SP which we can use for all of the goals we've outlined here in this post.

Voting for Witnesses by Proxy

We use our @homesteaderscoop account to vote for steem witnesses by proxy for our community members, including those that delegate 100 sp or more to our community account. Please see our latest monthly Witness Voting Report for more details.

Outgoing Delegations

We are running a plankton support campaign headed up by @nateonsteemit. We are delegating out small amounts of SP (~30) to #homesteading, #gardening, #permaculture, #sustainability (and related) newcomers to the steem platform. We hope to help overcome the Resource Credit (mana) limitations for some newcomers and do our part to assist in retention of new steem-comers that show promise and value for the steem community at large.

We are also up-voting these plankton accounts to help them have some up-vote support for their efforts while they build their account. These delegations and up-votes will be removed if accounts are inactive for a month or more. Check out our latest Homesteady Helpers: HSCO Plankton Support and Curation post for more info.

Currently we are delegating and up-voting the following new accounts. Please feel free to visit some and show them your love!

@bothanikha, @celestethebest, @circulartimes, @dansgardening, @hippygirlco, @lizablove, @mtnwomanmedicine, @nancymoral, @sacredstarfamily, @samamorningstar, @stanmr, @stevesmithagain, @tarahgreen, @thunderox, @warfsterveld

Incoming Delegations

In addition to asking the community at large for delegations, we are also asking our vendors for delegations. We are suggesting delegations from vendors with over 100 SP. However it is not mandatory and we will not be policing who is delegating and who is not. We are only asking to those that can comfortably afford it and want to contribute to supporting our community effort.

It is our hope that delegations come from those that believe in what we are doing for the community at large.

Now is the time for us to ask you to consider delegating. Delegating is a way for anyone to take some stake in our community. It is a vote for our efforts, our ethics and our mission. Thank you for your consideration.

Delegate Now via SteemConnect

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Current Delegators

Thank you very much to those who have delegated to Homesteaders Co-op!

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@allcapsonezero	HipHop, Handyman, Writer, Renaissance Man	in your computer
@allyinspirit	Environmental and ephemeral art work ✽ Drawing ✽ Processes. Initiator of the Magical Moments Gallery.	Sydney Australia
@amico	𝖬𝖺𝗇𝗒 𝖺𝗋𝖾 𝖼𝗈𝗇𝗏𝗂𝗇𝖼𝖾𝖽 𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗍 𝗅𝗂𝖿𝖾 𝗂𝗌 𝖺 𝗐𝖺𝗋. B𝗎𝗍 𝖫𝗂𝖿𝖾 𝗂𝗌 𝖺 𝖦𝖺𝗆𝖾, 𝗐𝗁𝖾𝗋𝖾 𝗐𝗁𝖺𝗍 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝖦𝗂𝗏𝖾 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝖱𝖾𝖼𝖾𝗂𝗏𝖾? 𝖬𝗎𝖼𝗁 𝖫𝗈𝗏𝖾 & 𝖢𝗈𝗆𝗉𝖺𝗌𝗌𝗂𝗈𝗇❗️ 🍉🍓🍍🍏 Ⓔⓐⓣ Ⓜⓞⓡⓔ Ⓕⓡⓤⓘⓣ 🍒🍌🍇🍎 🄿🄴🅁🄼🄰🄲🅄🄻🅃🅄🅁🄴 🄲🅁🄰🅉🅈 🄱🄰🅁🄴🄵🄾🄾🅃 🄵🅁🄴🄴🅆🄾🅁🄻🄳🄴🅁 🅅🄴🄶🄰🄽 🄺🅁🄸🅈🄰 🅈🄾🄶🄰 🄷🄴🅁🄴 & 🄽🄾🅆 🅂🄿🄸🅁🄸🅃🅄🄰🄻🄸🅃🅈 🅅🄸🄿🄰🅂🅂🄰🄽🄰 🄼🄰🄳🄸🅃🄰🅃🄸🄾🄽 🄵🅁🄴🄴 🅃🄷🄸🄽🄺🄴🅁 🄶🅄🅁🅄 🄸🅃🄰 🄴🅂 🄴🄽 🄵🅁 🅆🄾🅁🄻🄳 🅄🄽🄸🅅🄴🅁🅂🄰🄻 🅂🄾🅄🄻	🇮🇹 Italy
@artemislives	Woman of the world, mama, writer, thinker and creator of fine natural herbal products.	Chiang Mai, Thailand
@barge	Namaste	Krunkypuram
@belleamie	I'm in love with nature and intrigued by cryptocurrencies. I love singing with friends.	Seattle
@biffybirdcam	We all live in the Milky Way.	Pennsylvania
@crosheille	Creator and Founder of @NeedleWorkMonday. I'm a Christ follower, wife, stay at home mom of five, homeschool teacher, crocheter, photographer, natural remedier!	-
@da-dawn	Saving account for building a off grid steemit community in British Columbia, and finding the best on steemit!	British Columbia,Turtle Island
@diggndeeper.com	Tools, concepts & the stories of creating a robust and peaceful society through voluntary interactions.	-
@eaglespirit	RED Radio Owner, MedicineCardMonday, & FreedomFriday Creator.	USA
@edgy-ed-morrison	Musician. Random blog. Many interests including food, gardening, photography, outdoors. Freelance entrepreneur. Clean Steem	Philadelphia
@felt.buzz	short story writer, felt artist, b&b owner. Originally from UK, home is France	Felletin, France
@fishyculture	Just another broken human trying to make it better for all of us.	Idaho
@frejafri	mother, artist, traveler, nomad homesteader, lover of nature and wilderness. Gatherer of edible wilds and photographer of life.	Denmark
@immarojas	A cardiac nurse, loves photography, travel, food, sleeping and anything extraordinaire. Co-founder of @walkofhope.	Earth
@jeffjagoe	Nature, Food, Technology & Freedom	Valinor
@ligayagardener	Join us in our little garden where we enjoy living with and teaching about sustainability, renewable energy and community.	Gawler, South Australia
@makinstuff	I'm a lifelong tinkerer, and technology enthusiast. My aim is to empower others with knowledge to take care of your health, wealth, and self actualization.	AL, USA
@meanroosterfarm	A small farm trying to do the right things.	Pacific Northwest, America
@nateonsteemit	Forest person.	Texas
@novacadian	Father, programmer and blockchain advocate.	Halifax, Nova Scotia
@organicgardener	Organic gardener, internet marketer and crypto enthousiast	-
@papa-pepper	Wild-man, Gardener, Encourager, Homesteader, Lyricist, Deep Thinker, Papa, Humorist, Husband	Arkansas, USA
@pennsif	future gazer, past watcher, community builder, prepper, homesteader, seeker of self-reliance, MSP Waves Radio show host, founder of A Dollar A Day @adollaraday	Wales, UK
@porters	Passing on knowledge, developing potential and making for brighter futures.	Saskatchewan, Canada
@ppmsilver	We manufacture and sell top quality high silver concentration products.	Salina, Oklahoma
@quochuy	Huy (for short) aka The Little Worm Farmer. Witness | Developer | Worm & Black Soldier Fly Farmer	Wyoming, NSW, Australia
@realself	-	Look in the mirror.
@riverflows	Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet	Victoria Australia
@sagescrub	A couple's adventures in homesteading. Creator of @homesteaderscoop	Oregon
@senorcoconut	Franco-American Traveler, Artist, Homesteader and The Permaculture of Things with Anarchist Tendencies	No Man's Land
@silviabeneforti	Creative woman/ artist	Italy
@squishysquid	Stay-at-Homesteading Mama of three crazy kids. We homeschool, we make stuff, we enjoy life! ♥	A quiet place in the woods
@steemgreen	Mining Social Awareness On The Steem Blockchain	Global
@stortebeker	Sustainability, Urban Homesteading, Natural Building, Health, Food, Healthfood, Nature, Culture, Bicycles	Mexico City
@thecryptodrive	Blockchain Entrepreneur, Steem Witness and all-round Good Guy!	Global
@thistle-rock	A passionate creator; lover of life; patiently waiting to grow up!	Middle North
@trucklife-family	Single Mama, Doula, Nature Lover, Vegan, Birth Activist and Defender of All Things Wild	The Earth
@walkerland	Kitchen Witch | Wildcrafting | Homesteading | Organic Gardening Building a Greener Kinder World	Canada
@wwf	Artist, Author, Steward of Terra Mater, Researcher and Activist. Dedicated to peace, freedom, prosperity and healthy relationships!	Tawatinaw Valley Turtle Island
@xsgreen-cook	Healthy food video series featuring a wide variety of cuisine. I love gardening and self sufficient homesteading.	Philadelphia
@yabapmatt	Steem Witness / Developer / Creator of Steem Keychain, Steem Engine, & Steem Monsters!	Philadelphia, PA, US

How to Follow Our Curation Trail on SteemAuto

You can follow the @homesteaderscoop curation trail to automatically up-vote the same posts we vote on (as outlined above). This is an easy way to support our community with extra votes.

Instructions to follow our curation trail:

1. Sign in to https://steemauto.com/ with your account via SteemConnect
2. Click on Curation Trail button
3. In the Search for a Trail search box enter homesteaderscoop and click search
4. When you find us, click Follow
5. Click on Settings
6. You can change the voting weight percentage (%). Default settings is to scale into the vote at 50%. That means if we vote 20% on someone, you will vote 10%. If we vote 100%, you vote on them at 50%.

Decide a percent of your voting power you are comfortable sharing with the posts we vote for. Your voting habits and the spare voting power you have on a regular basis would influence how much percent you have available to share. If you're not sure, start with a lower percent like 20% for example and see how that works. You can adjust it higher or lower at any time, you can also un-follow a trail at any time or pause a trail at any time.

You can keep track of your voting power at steemd: https://steemd.com/

Another feature SteemAuto has on the dashboard is "Limit on Mana". Consider raising this from 70% to 80%.

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