Tanemaki 種まき

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

Tanemaki (種まき, "to sow / scatter seeds" in Japanese; short name Tane, 種 "seed") 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 honors the old Japanese mutual-aid traditions around rice — yui (shared community labor) and tanomoshi (reciprocity funds) — that inspired the paper Plantare, the "community currency for seed exchange" (BAH-Semillero, 2009, CC-BY-SA). Tanemaki is the digital Plantare.

• Web: https://tanemaki.app
• Package id: org.comunes.tane

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. 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.