Fruit and Vegetables, Trees and Shrubs, Vines, etc. Edibles grow in many forms. Don't even get me started on 'what is a fruit' and 'define a berry'.
My two cents:
On the one hand, people want to talk about the growing of the plants; on the other hand, people want to talk about how to preserve the harvest. My opinion is that the 'Edibles and Preservin'g forum is just fine the way it is.
It can be all things to all people
if they utilize it correctly. Each person has the ability to start a new thread within the existing forum for their own purpose - but no one will miss out as it's all under one roof. It's all 'edibles' all the time; the preserving aspect comes in if one was successful with the growing part of the process.
By creating separate forums for this or that, information may get lost/overlooked/buried that could be useful to all growers of all edibles - whatever the type of plant that the edible is growing on.