The Humble Farmers’ Handbook

BIBI CAT
4 min readSep 4, 2020

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This is a useful handbook for Farmers from Harvest.Finace

Part 1. How to farm your DAI, USDC, USDT and earn FARM+CRV

Step by step instructions

To start, you need have ETH and DAI or USDC or USDT in your Metamask Wallet.

Preparation:

  1. At least $100~$200 worth of ETH as Gas fee.
  2. At least $1000~$2000 worth of DAI or USDC or USDT.

Step 1. “Connect Wallet

Go to the home page and click the “Connect Wallet” to accept the connection with harvest.finance

Step 2. “Deposit Seeds funds”

  1. Go to the home page and click the “Deposit Wallet” .

2. Click confirm to approve spending permission.

3. Go back to home page and enter amount and click deposit again, then you will need to click confirm to Farm your Fiats.

4. Once above is done, your DAI will be convert to fDai (USDT will be fUSDT, USDC will be fUSDC). Then go to “Earn” to stake your fDai

Part 2. How to farm your FARM-USDC based LP tokens for more FARM in Uniswap pool?

Step by step instructions

To start, you need have USDC and FARM and ETH in your Metamask Wallet.

Preparation:

  1. At least $100~$200 worth of ETH as Gas fee.
  2. At least $1000~$2000 worth of USDC and FARM.(ex. 3 FARM and 500 USDC)

Step 1. Adding liquidity to Uniswap v2

Here is a tutorial Josue Gomez

Be careful:

  1. The official pair is FARM-USDC
  2. ⚠️⚠️⚠️ For now, FARM-ETH & FARM-DAI pair will produce UNI-V2 token, however, you can’t stake them!!!

Step 2. Stake your FARM-USDC based LP tokens

After you finished step1, you will have UNI-V2 token

  1. Go to the “Earn” page, select 🦄Uniswap Farm

2. Enter the amount you want to stake, and Click “Stake”, you will need to approve the transaction to stake. Then wait for Harvesting!

2. Once you staked, then wait for Harvesting!

Part 3. How to farm your FARM-USDC based LP tokens for more FARM in Balancer pool?

Step by step instructions

To start, you need have USDC and FARM and ETH in your Metamask Wallet.

Preparation:

  1. At least $100~$200 worth of ETH as Gas fee.
  2. At least $1000~$2000 worth of USDC and FARM.(ex. 3 FARM and 500 USDC)

Here is a tutorial from Fernando Martinelli (CEO and Cofounder at Balancer Labs)

Tips:

The official pair is FARM-USDC

2. Select ⚖️Balancer Farm instead of 🦄Uniswap Farm

3. The other parts is just like Uniswap LP staking process shown above.

Part 4. FAQs

Q1: Please leave a comment if you have questions,

A1: So i can answer all of them

Conclusion and Next Steps

Your hard work is about to become easier with Harvest 🚜

It ain’t much, but it’s honest work.

As Harvest is a 3 Days old Defi baby, everything is just starting.

Like old school Farmers, we hope you Seed, HODL, HODL until it grows to the biggest Farm land in the decentralized finance world. Then we harvest our fruits to reward our hard work.

Please let the humble FARMERS know if you have any questions or suggestions on FARM discord channel.

#BreadForThePeople 🥖👨‍🌾👩🏻‍🌾

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