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Seed groups and networks, gardens and collectives, growers… and anyone with a few packets
put away. For all ages, from 10 to 80.
## The name
## A Japanese name
**Tane** means "seed" (種). It comes from *tanemaki* (種まき), "to sow seeds" in Japanese, a
nod to old customs of mutual aid between neighbours (sharing the work, saving together).
**Tane** means "seed" (種); *tanemaki* (種まき) means "to sow seeds". And it's no accident
that the name is Japanese. In much of rural Japan, farming life rested on mutual aid —
*yui* (結): neighbours lent one another their labour, and their seed and rice too. Whoever
received grain or seed in a hard year gave it back after the harvest — a little of the
much that seed had multiplied. That way the common stock never ran dry: every loan, once
grown, gave back more than it took.
That very idea is the heart of Tane. When you share seeds you can attach a **Plantare**: a
promise to return, when you can, a similar amount of free seed. It isn't a debt — it's a
pledge to keep the seed alive and moving. And because returning it means growing it, and
growing multiplies it, every loan makes the commons grow instead of shrinking it.
## Where it stands and how to help