The Chapmans were canal people, moving barges on the Canal into the 20th century and the men in the family were generally named David, John, or Samuel, which made genealogy a royal PITA. He was an great uncle of my great grandmother, nee Pearl Chapman, whose father was also named John. He got tired of leading mules and headed into what is Ohio today. [The Davids were the first-born and owned the boats and barges].

Pomona would be the Roman “apple goddess” and is usually pictured with one or a cornucopia.

Strawberries propagate by sending out runners from an original seed plant and establishing new plants as they move out when they encounter the right conditions.

My first idea was to go with Appleseed International, evoking both Johnny Appleseed, the DIY, American wanderer who spreads apple trees, which are both useful and themselves fraught with meaning, like the popular association with apples as the fruit from the tree of knowledge. But turns out there is a real NGO called Appleseed. They specialize in early childhood education.

Then I was thinking of something to do with Prometheus, but that sends the wrong message, namely that helping others requires theft of a natural resource.

I was also thinking of calling them the Dandelion League, which has a similar image to apple seeds, spreading knowledge that grows organically, even if it does sound a little hippieish. But then i remembered the name from Y: the last man, and as Elvira pointed out, it would weigh down the idea with too much allusion.

You might want to look at the Roman Flamen for ideas. A leather flying helmet and wool cape isn’t much of a superhero costume, but it can be worked with, and they represented all of the various gods of Rome. Realistically the gods of Rome and Greece were really nothing more that personifications of the working of Nature, so there are no limits on the scope of activities.

Remember secret societies can’t be too secret or no one with get the point.