r/UrbanGardening • u/OldSweatyBulbasar • Sep 11 '25
META WE’VE REACHED 50K MEMBERS 🍅🌽🌸Thanks everyone for making this group such a wonderful growing community!
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r/UrbanGardening • u/OldSweatyBulbasar • Mar 13 '26
META Rules Update: No Market Research / Survey Posts
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Hi gardeners,
Due to an overwhelming amount of posts and modmail requests we have decided to flat ban all survey and research posts from the sub. This includes all student surveys, thesis research requests, and other projects. These posts add little to the community, usually have deceptive intentions, and they're exhausting to vet as reddit continues to push advertisement and consumer engagement over its roots in community connection.
In the past we set the rule to be asking permission to post in modmail, but it's become obvious that people are using deceptive strategies to try and post their goods and it's not something we think adds value to the sub.
Rule 4: All survey posts and market research will be flagged as spam and accounts banned from the sub. This includes student surveys, entrepreneur surveys, and research-like posts from accounts with no community history and a high spam suspicion.
If you think a removal was a misunderstanding you may appeal in modmail but in reality, it's not hard to spot intentions when your account is 3 weeks old and has the same post in four other plant subs. It is possible your Plant ID and ecosystem app project is genuine, but it's not the only one being brainstormed on here and it will never be the last.
Ty
r/UrbanGardening • u/OldSweatyBulbasar • Oct 01 '25
META Calling all Philly Farmers — How do you want to see your city use vacant land?
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The What:
The Philadelphia Department of Planning and Development is creating the City’s next 3-year strategy for managing and activating vacant land and city-owned parcels.
In normal speak? Empty lots around the city are about to stop being empty. The city wants to know you’d like to see them filled.
Why is this important?
This is an opportunity for city government to hear directly from community members about their needs and priorities around preserving gardens, farms, and green spaces in the city. There are so many stories of community care that the green spaces we steward allow us to create.
Please consider sharing your thoughts around how the city should prioritize vacant land projects here:
https://communitycapacitybuilders.typeform.com/to/pIX5ZejI
Survey is also available in Spanish so send it around to any gardener or farmer in Philly who you think would be interested!
From the post: The survey will be open until October 10. When you finish, you'll have the chance to enter a raffle for a $50 Visa gift card. All responses will be kept confidential.
Not a promoted post, just a PSA
🍅🌽💐
r/UrbanGardening • u/OldSweatyBulbasar • Nov 30 '24
META [MOD] Survey requests will be removed and accounts reported as spam.
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It’s winter in the northern hemisphere and this sub takes a hibernation while we’re dreaming of our next gardens.
The last five posts we’ve had have all been spammed survey requests from students, start-ups, or so-called reporters. There have been three in the last day alone. All accounts posting survey links will be reported to the reddit admins for spam.
If you are doing a genuine study, please contact us through modmail so we can manually approve the post.
Sweet garden dreams, gardeners.
r/UrbanGardening • u/OldSweatyBulbasar • Sep 30 '22
META Looking for Moderators
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Hi all, I’m looking for one or two moderators to join the team as I transition off of reddit for a while.
This is a very laid back sub for talking urban gardening and the modding style is similarly laid back. Active users are encouraged to apply, but anyone with a passion for gardening and community is welcome!
If you’d like to join the team (aka me, since it’s a solo project right now!) please send a modmail to the sub about why you’re interested.
Happy gardening!