Welcome to Gardening Chat!
An IRC (and matrix) community about gardening, farming, foraging, and related topics.
About
Gardening chat is intended for the discussion of gardening, farming,
foraging, and growing plants (and fungi) in general.
We mostly focus on growing and harvesting for consumption but we’re quite open to discussion about decorative gardening as well.
Both green thumbs and brown thumbs are welcome here!
Chat
Join the conversation!
You can join the community by:
- connecting to the Libera Chat IRC network and joining ##gardening (webchat link)
- joining via Matrix, we’re listed as
##gardening:libera.chat
Sometimes the channel might require you to have a Libera.Chat account to talk. This is to prevent abuse and spam. If you don’t have one, learn how to register.
When connecting with Matrix it is often not clear if your messages are
visible to IRC users. If you are not logged in to a Libera.Chat account you
will need to direct message @NickServ:libera.chat to register or identify.
Documentation is available on Libera.Chat’s website
and in the bridge documentation.
Conduct
Expected Conduct
Discussion about restricted plants (eg, marijuana) is allowed but we strongly prefer that discussions stick to the growing of the plant, not the processing or consumption of it.
Discussions about unrelated politics should be left at the door. We make some allowance for politics relevant to gardening and farming, but this community is not the place for general political discourse. Ideological conversations (eg, vegan vs meat-eating, organic vs conventional, permaculture vs rotational cropping, etc) can become heated and personal, so please respect other people’s choices instead of trying to convert them.
Our community is a blend of people with means who grow for income or hobby and people who need to grow their own food. We expect that all participants be respectful and kind to one another. We expect that people will listen to the requests of everyone in the channel, not just the ops/moderators. If anyone indicates they are uncomfortable with a particular discussion then we expect everyone else to respect that and move on.
Behavior forbidden by Libera.Chat network policy is banned in this channel.
Participants who are engaging in bad faith interactions will be asked to leave at the sole discretion of the ops/moderators. Examples of bad faith interactions include but are not limited to:
- Bigotry such as pejoratives, slurs, persecution or chauvinism based on race, faith, culture, language, place of origin, place of residence, sex, sexuality, gender, gender identity, employment, ability, or socio-economic status. This includes both genuine sentiment and “jokes”. Religion, culture, and political beliefs are not valid excuses.
- Aggressive and hostile actions such as name-calling, insults, trolling/baiting/taunting people with intent of causing their exclusion, bringing outside disputes into the community, or other harassing attention.
- Disruptive content such as NSFW links, repeatedly talking nonsense, constantly causing offtopic discussion, or flooding.
Ban duration will be at the sole discretion of the ops/moderators. Repeat offenses and ban evasion will severely extend the length of a ban.
Please do not publish logs publically or bring in bots or noisy client scripts without the consent of the ops/moderators.
The current ops/moderators are:
- el
- emmeka