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