Seed-Saving Network (LM-Dawn class)

Class card for LM-Dawn federated seed-saving and open-source-seed networks that maintain shared cultivar-commons plus traditional-ecological-knowledge (TEK) stewardship — structurally resistant to plant-variety-protection (PVP) and UPOV 1991 seed-IP enclosure. Four sub-families: (1) Collector-exchange networks: Seed Savers Exchange Iowa (SSE; founded 1975 by Diane Ott Whealy and Kent Whealy; ~13K varieties cataloged; ~600K cumulative seed-exchanges since 1975; largest non-governmental seed collection in US); Heritage Seed Library UK / Garden Organic (1970s+; ~800 varieties; Open Pollinated only); Native Seeds/SEARCH Tucson AZ (~1,900 accessions; Sonoran Desert indigenous agricultural seeds including Tohono O'odham, Hopi, Navajo landraces). (2) Community seed banks + farmer-school networks: Navdanya (Vandana Shiva; India; ~150 community seed banks established since 1991; ~5,000 farmer- members; Uttarakhand HQ); Bija Vidyapeeth / Earth University farmer-school (~10K farmer-trainees; seed-sovereignty curriculum). (3) Open-source seed licensing: Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI; Wisconsin; ~600 OSSI-pledged varieties since 2014; pledge is viral — derivatives must remain open; anti-patent mechanism analogous to GPL for seeds). (4) Biocultural conservation: Haudenosaunee Seed Keepers; Lakota-Kiowa seed networks; Pacific Islander traditional seed systems — TEK governance embedded in ceremonial and cultural obligations. Cautionary non-instance: Svalbard Global Seed Vault (FAO/Norwegian state managed; not collective; included as structural foil — institutional management without community stewardship is the negative case this class defines itself against). Distinguishing LM signatures: (1) capture_resistance_index HIGH — OSSI pledge is structurally viral (no IP enclosure possible once pledged; Navdanya's community-seed-bank sovereignty doctrine rejects UPOV); (2) liveness_temporal_coupling HIGH — seeds are living organisms; seed viability requires active cultivation cycles (plants must be grown out annually to maintain viability and adapt to changing conditions); the machine is entangled with biological time in a way no legal instrument alone can substitute; (3) proletarianization_risk MODERATE — seed-saving competence (isolation distances, roguing, open-pollinated selection) is embodied and requires living practice; OSSI legal form reduces risk at variety-access level but living seed-stewardship knowledge remains tacit; (4) pace_layer: nature primary (seed viability governed by biological rhythms), culture secondary (TEK transmission); (5) Adjacency-lift mechanic: Hidalgo lift from MM-Dawn three-field-crop- rotation-1000 (collective seed-selection precedent) + MM IP-regime (industrial-era-patent-system-1790 → UPOV capture → OSSI as viral counter-move) + DM agrifood concentration (Bayer-Monsanto vertical integration) yields OSSI pledge + TEK-governance form that none of those ancestors alone generates. Emergence subtype: institutional_amalgam (commons-license form + biocultural stewardship + community exchange networks combined in novel seed-sovereignty instrument). All quantitative state-variable values are [EXTRAP]; framing is [CANON-concept] per Wave-0 LM definitions and Wave-6 §3 adjacency-lift framing. STUB count: varieties-cataloged, seed-exchanges-conducted, farmer-trainees, indigenous-cultivars-archived, OSSI-pledges-issued all require commodity-enum extension (currently null + [STUB]). [CANON-concept; EXTRAP-LM-values]