That could be useful. This dumb country is so big it might need to be broken into quite a few regions, like I imagine the other continents. I suppose it would depend whether we want regions for shipping purposes or climate relatability.
If for climate, we could put a setting for Hardiness Zone and Köppen classifications.
I would be interested to know how much seed was collected for the grexes. Either the bulk amounts (like weight) or number of packets. I’d be fine with this being at the end of the year or after the packets are sold out for the year.
For me I put Europe, Spain 9b.
When I search for Köppen classifications it says that Spain is the most climatically diverse country in Europe with 13 different Köppen climates.
Yes, totally. Maybe to do a preorder of the packages with some type of a system, and then you can modify the sizes of the packages depending of the people available. I suppose more the better with a minimum package size, so you never are left out with seed. Maybe if there is a species with a low seed count you can ask the community for donations.
This would be really cool hype for all of us to see. “This year we received 2lb of tomato seeds, 6lb of [variety] squash, etc. and sent out # of tomato packets, # of onions,” and so on. I’d love to see those numbers if only so we can see where we might want to concentrate more of our growing efforts to bump the seed quantities up if needed or mellow out if we’re all concentrating too much in one area.
I can certainly share the info about the number of packets / weight of seeds collected. I’ll gather this for the last two years and post in the community and/or website.
Hello all together,
I would like to have a new category: Creating/Maintaining Diversity
A lot of people want to breed and to adapt plants but there are no discussions about creating and maintaining genetic diversity, the basis of everything.
For me the most important thing is to keep as much diversity as possible of useful plants (I only cull unusable ones like Natural Selection does and humans did for 10.000 years) because we need diverse crops for the survival of our crops in the future (the crops have to be able to adapt to future conditions not only to the current conditions in our gardens)…
I saw a thread with a group focusing on “Showing benefit- collecting data and hosting trials”
Maybe there could be another discussion on your objectives of creating and maintaining diversity?
My suggestion is that those types of focus groups, initiatives, and other group projects could be in the same category, rather than having one forum category for each topic.
Thanks for your hint, @Patate !
I think, it would be better to have more categories to find special things more easily than in the category “General discussions”.
The category “Breeding” is also necessary, I think, like “Adaptation Projects”.
@ThomasPicard wanted to breed better varieties (like plant breeders in the beginning of plant breeding); but my goal is just to maintain diversity, not breeding, not adapting, keeping as much diversity as possible for future conditions.
Many important discussions get lost in “General Discussions”. That’s the reason I want more special categories…
This evening I found interesting threads about “Garlic from seed” and “Cucurbita maxima landrace in Switzerland” which could have much more general informations and input from others about these topics.
Maybe there are hundred of threads like these in this forum which are difficult to find and filled with doubled informations…
I make a plea for more categories…
I see your point for more categories 
Let’s do it.
I will make you a moderator and you can create a few subcategories, then recategorize some discussions. The once a moderator creates the categories, others can help re-assign discussions.
Tags are also meant to help organize/search. They need more management too., there are far too many now, and plenty of things untagged.
It would be great if we had a group of you us that agreed on a plan for cleaning up tags and creating a few categories and then spent a bit of time each day for a week or two to make it happen.
Thanks for your help making this better!
@Juergen before we do that, can you create a category tree proposal?
Hello Julia, thanks for your response!
I see, there are a lot more things to be done. A good tagging should do the most and the best, I think.
Is it possible to tag threads after they have started? Every thread should have one tag minimum and three tags maximum.
For the categories I would propose three new categories “Creating Diversity”, “Breeding” and “Questions” and quit the category “General Discussions” (because it is to general).
“Creating Diversity” should be about mixing/crossing varieties
“Adaptation Projects” should be about growing mixed populations under local conditions, only selected by “nature” (it’s “Maintaining Diversity”)
“Breeding” should be about growing mixed populations and selection by humans for special traits (old school breeding, although natural selection plays its role here, too)
…but a good tagging would make it much easier to find information…
Maybe “general” could be “around the coffee table” for non specific kind of threads that are more about chatting than a certain topic.
That’s a misunderstanding : I want to see the same successes Joseph had in his garden. And it will be landraces, not “varieties”. To see how far I could go on some projects, this brazilian landrace for example is a good example : fixed on some traits, not on others. 2 short vids on this : 1 and 2. Like some developed populations on this or that…
+ I’'ll personnally try to always keep aside a “wide wide mix”