Relevance of cultivated species observations

[ram_k]

@graysquirrel

This is a good point. Here in the US, as we’ve moved more into massive commercial-scale farming, a lot of crop diversity has been lost and previously widely-grown variants have gone extinct. Unfortunately there’s no good database that collects information on crop varieties, so we don’t even know most of what’s been lost. I’m not really sure iNat is set up to record this stuff effectively, though - I’d rather see a dedicated site just for those, with more flexibility for documenting complicated ancestries.

Inaturalist may not be the best platform. But it is / it could be a starting point , a point to appreciate, and then document diversity.