I am torn between two ideas. Recently, I have been watching videos about wealth building and gardening. Videos about wealth-building advice keeping your plan to yourself. They consider it wise not to announce your plan and intentions in public so as not to invite opposition and negative thinking. The right time to announce it is when everything is done.
However, blogging is a way to motivate me to action. Besides, this can also serve as a digital diary to track my progress. So despite the danger of a public announcement, I still want to pursue it. The plan is how to convert crops and vegetables to digital assets on Hive.
My plan is to try gardening and to utilize income from crops and vegetables like okra, sweet potatoes, onions, garlic, etc., to provide me with capital to invest in Hive. This means that agricultural income will serve as seed capital for micro-investing. Crops and vegetables will provide me a real-world cash flow engine, part of the proceeds of which will go to digital asset accumulation. I see this as a practical tentmaker strategy: letting the land finance my Hive Power (HP) growth.
A few months ago, I started planting sweet potatoes and Malabar spinach, or alugbati. I already harvested several times and used them in my cooking. I combine them with egg, and the end product is like a delicious Korean pizza. It is both healthy and economical.
Nevertheless, as months passed and my garden started to expand, I providentially stumbled upon gardening tips on YouTube. I find them fascinating. And then an idea started to form and evolved into a plan of combining labor in the real world and the potential of cutting-edge fintech like blockchain and cryptocurrency.
Since this is just a test, I want to start small. In the coming weeks, I am thinking of using a sack of compost as my seedbed in planting sweet potatoes. They say that this gardening method yields more crops than planting directly on soil. If this were to become successful, I would also try okra, onions, garlic, chayote, and even trees like bananas and papaya.
Finding extra cash while supporting a family of five is very challenging. I hope and pray that this plan will provide me even a small amount that will go to my Hive portfolio. Even if the sale is small, let us say ₱500, 20% of this amount goes straight to Hive. What matters is consistency. If this were to work, I could share this as a testimony in capital formation.
The table below will serve as a sample:
| Crop | Income Earned | Amount Converted to HIVE | HIVE Accumulated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweet potato | ₱500 | ₱100 | X HIVE |
| Okra | ₱200 | ₱40 | X HIVE |
| Garlic | ₱100 | ₱20 | X HIVE |
I find this very motivating. I could not wait for the day I could say that a certain amount of HIVE Power (HP) really came from the soil. This, to me, is powerful, for it combines physical productivity (the land), digital accumulation (Hive staking), compounding yield, and financial discipline. This reflects the stewardship value I had in mind in creating the Tentmaker community. In this way, gardening not only serves my health purpose and as a food source, but it also becomes a capital-producing engine that would steadily build my stake in Hive. Without the aid of those YouTube videos, it would never enter my mind that agriculture can be utilized as a capital-generation system for building long-term blockchain wealth.
What do you think about this idea of converting vegetables into digital equity?
