2023-01-12T08:00:00Z
Most of this site is public
Except for the introductions, zoom calls, and sharing seeds categories, anything you post here will be viewable by non-registered internet users. If privacy is a concern, please change the name and user name in your profile so that you aren’t publicly searchable.
Requesting Seeds
Do not privately or publicly request seeds from anybody, unless they have been specifically offered. This includes chat messages or forum replies. If you receive such a message, please report it to an admin. . Asking the community generally is fine (ie looking for blight resistant tomato seeds). There is a seed sharing category, and we restricted access to this to people who have trust level 2 or higher, since this is moving towards being a public group and people are sharing private lists of seeds. So if you don’t see it, just read a few more posts, write a reply or two, add some hearts to other posts and you will get there.
Tagging Policy
While there are some people who have done amazing work in this group, please be sensitive about tagging them with questions, and instead try as often as possible to address the whole forum.
Asking Questions
If you have a question, (and have read the book or watched the course material) search the forums first to be sure it’s not answered elsewhere. While we welcome questions and discussion, it’s important that we save some energy for new topics and not only the same topics again and again.
Content-- Keep it Focused
This forum is for discussion of landrace techniques and experiences. While this necessarily overlaps with gardening techniques, breeding techniques, and specific cultivars, we ask that you try to keep the focus related to landraces and landrace growing. There are many dedicated and excellent facebook groups and other online forums that give specific advice on specialized topics.
Avoid Religious and Political Discussions
To ensure a conducive environment for discussing landrace gardening, we ask members to avoid topics that veer into religious or political discussions. These topics can be divisive and detract from the main purpose of the forum. There are many other platforms to discuss these subjects; let’s keep our focus here on gardening and related techniques.
Information May Not Always be Accurate
We do not evaluate posts for factual accuracy, so please take a moment before posting to make sure you’ve confirmed the accuracy of your post, and take a moment when reading a post to consider the source.
This is a Civilized Place for Public Discussion
Please treat this discussion forum with the same respect you would a public park. We, too, are a shared community resource — a place to share skills, knowledge and interests through ongoing conversation.
Improve the Discussion
Help us make this a great place for discussion by always adding something positive to the discussion, however small. If you are not sure your post adds to the conversation, think over what you want to say and try again later.
One way to improve the discussion is by discovering ones that are already happening. Spend time browsing the topics here before replying or starting your own, and you’ll have a better chance of meeting others who share your interests.
The topics discussed here matter to us, and we want you to act as if they matter to you, too. Be respectful of the topics and the people discussing them, even if you disagree with some of what is being said.
Your Participation Counts
The conversations we have here set the tone for every new arrival. Help us influence the future of this community by choosing to engage in discussions that make this forum an interesting place to be — and avoiding those that do not.
Discourse provides tools that enable the community to collectively identify the best (and worst) contributions: bookmarks, likes, flags, replies, edits, watching, muting and so forth. Use these tools to improve your own experience, and everyone else’s, too.
If You See a Problem, Flag It
Moderators have special authority; they are responsible for this forum. But so are you. With your help, moderators can be community facilitators, not just janitors or police.
When you see bad behavior, don’t reply. Replying encourages bad behavior by acknowledging it, consumes your energy, and wastes everyone’s time. Just flag it. If enough flags accrue, action will be taken, either automatically or by moderator intervention.
In order to maintain our community, moderators reserve the right to remove any content and any user account for any reason at any time. Moderators do not preview new posts; the moderators and site operators take no responsibility for any content posted by the community.
Keep It Tidy
This is a public forum, and search engines index these discussions. Keep the language, links, and images safe for family and friends.
Make the effort to put things in the right place, so that we can spend more time discussing and less cleaning up. So:
- Don’t start a topic in the wrong category; please read the category definitions.
- Don’t cross-post the same thing in multiple topics.
- Don’t post no-content replies.
- Don’t divert a topic by changing it midstream.
- Don’t sign your posts — every post has your profile information attached to it.
Rather than posting “+1” or “Agreed”, use the Like button. Rather than taking an existing topic in a radically different direction, use Reply as a Linked Topic.
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Terms of Service
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