Plantare

A local-first, decentralized app for managing and sharing traditional seeds and seedlings.

Plantare helps people and collectives keep a friendly inventory of their seed bank, decide what they offer, and share it locally — without a central intermediary that could control, censor, or be fined for it. The goal is both practical and political: to support traditional seed varieties and push back against the seed monopoly.

The name and spirit come from the paper Plantare — a "community currency for seed exchange", a bearer IOU passed hand to hand, created by BAH-Semillero (2009, CC-BY-SA). This app is the digital Plantare.

Status

Early design. See PLAN.md for the full analysis and roadmap (in Spanish). The valuable prior work lives in docs/mockups/.

Principles

• Local-first. Works fully offline, no account, no central server. The app stays useful even if no one maintains it.
• Decentralized. Identity is a keypair you own; sharing rides on open protocols (Nostr / ActivityPub), never a central marketplace.
• Free/libre. Copyleft software, open data formats, multilingual from day one.
• Layered. Inventory → Offer → Local sharing → Web of trust. Each layer is useful on its own.

License

Software: copyleft (AGPL/GPLv3, TBD). Docs & assets under CC-BY-SA where noted.