Thanks Malte, that is a very good point to emphasize
Hi Hugo! Thank you, English is ok for me. I am in Piemonte, near lake Maggiore.
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hello all, I fully support the project and I would love to volunteer as coordinator for the fava beans, but I cannot commit to growing two other crops in this list. My focus is on legumes and cereals, and I am not serious / dedicated enough with the other ones.
My own fava grex / landrace is already 4 years old, mixed every year with the previous yearsâ safety stock, and enriched every year with new contributions.
I have started sowing my 2025-26 fava yesterday, and my project this year is to sow a series every month from novembre to march and compare results.
So if nobody else wants to coordinate fava, I can do it. Let me know.
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Great idea!
Iâm down for salad and beets. Tomatoes as well, if I could be provided with seeds, as Iâm still growing a mix of heirlooms and without focusing on crossing and promiscuity.
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I hear several members being held back by the proposal that we pick 3-4 crops when we join the project. I discover that the heart of this project is that each of us show up and do some extra work on these crops that we would not otherwise have done. If that is just on one crop, for example doing a bit more documentation or taking that crop more seriously while being in contact with other growers over the season, then that is good enough for me. Specifically, I would like to welcome @isabelleâs offer to take a lead on the fava and see where we can go with it.
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Hi @Anita, then I will mark you down for these crops and we will figure out the logistics concerning tomato seeds later. Welcome in the project 
@isabelle I am in agreement with @MalteMalte that I would love it If you would coordinate the Fava beans since we know of your experience with and dedication to this crop. So I am adding you as a participant and a coordinator. Thank y@Malteu!
@Malte, yes you are right that maybe we set the boundaries for this project too high. Would you propose that we require just one crop? I would be fine with it.
What do others think? Advantages: more participants, more flexibility for participantsâŠ
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thank you laura & malte for your flexibility and accepting me as coordinator for the fava beans focus crop.
I believe I should be the first one to start the dedicated thread (winter growing season, sowing just started) and I would like to check with you how you would like the thread to be labelled / created ? (category, tags?)
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Well, we are still finding out what works the best.
I propose that you put it into the category Adaptation projects > Legumes and use the tag fava.
Additonally, you can use the tags: europe and focus-crops-europe, like I did in the introductionary thread. Then people can just click on the tag and it will show them all other threads that also have this tag.
Aditionally I will link all crop threads in my introductionary post, so they are easily found.
Thanks for your engagement, looking forward to reading and posting about favas!
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fava thread is created.
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I would be very much ok with people growing just one crop from our list and taking that one serously re documentation etc.
I believe our initial thoughts for proposing 3-4 crops per person was that we wanted to make sure each crop has more people focusing on it, not just 1-2 persons. But there was just 10 of us discussing this project, and without knowing how much other community members would be interested in the project.
Since there is much enthusiasm and already nice number of people for each crop, I think it is ok to require just one crop.
If we are in agreement with requirements, than @Soeren should also be in with his squash (and personally think that moschatas selected for rampant growth and semi-shade is very nice addition to collective seeds).
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Thanks for your input @Mare. You are right that we have a nice list of participants, even watermelon, which has the fewest participants has six. So even if we change the rule to require only one crop and some people decide to let one of the crops they initially signed up for, drop again, it may be compensated by more people participating overall.
Anyone else want to chime in?
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Reminder for those who volunteer to facilitate or take the lead on one of the crops. The goal of that role is to support the participants that sign up for that crop to achieve the goals through collective effort:
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seed increase for the community
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increase diversity and quality of our crops
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create a focus and resource for new members
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create adaptation gardening success stories (pictures!)
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generate data that can be used as proof of concept for adaptation gardening
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Thank you Malte for reminding the overall goals.
In a practical way taking myself as an example, @ThomasPicard has a lot of diversity of squash and watermelon, my favas are powered by Polarca and random exchanges in Antibes, lettuces are very diverse, but my beets selection is quite average so far. As we said weâre going to expand our genetic resources, shouldnât we coordinate that lightly in the specific sections? I mean if everybody is going to buy the same genetic material/varieties at the end of the season 2026 that would not add up to max diversity if we start exchanging our new forcified grexes.
Hereâs our seed catalogue of seed catalogues. Framacalc - tableur collaboratif en ligne
And should we dip our toes in looking through genebank material?
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Hello,
I would like to join favas, squash and tomatoes, if possible.
I do not travel, so at the end of te season I can share seeds by sending them to the respective coordinators, if that is okay.
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Hello! I would love to participate with Watermelon and Fava for sure. If needed I could find a third depending upon what you decide for that rule. I am currently in Canada, and plan on bringing back some watermelon varieties Iâve found in the US and Canada to add to my current project to mix watermelons that I started summer 2025. Looking forward to exploring this project with you! Thanks!
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