Send a gift seven-generation stewardship needs many hands, and many things

Some gifts you can ship. Some we'll coordinate pickup for. Some are big enough to require a conversation. What matters is that the gift is received in the spirit it's given — as offering, and as care for the work.

Sacred Arts & Cultural Memory

• Kiln — currently blocking ceramic art teaching in School IV
• Looms — for weaving, ritual textiles, ceremonial cloth
• Sewing machines — heavy-duty, for ritual flag work
• Pottery wheels, clay, glazes
• Fabric, thread, dye, embroidery supplies
• Painting supplies — canvas, brushes, acrylics, pastels
• Woodworking tools — chisels, mallets, gouges, spokeshaves (for ritual carving, mask work, opón Ifá trays)
• Indigo vat supplies — indigo leaves & seeds, fermentation vats, mordants, undyed cotton and linen
• Adire supplies — cassava starch resist, tjanting tools, wax (Yoruba resist-dye tradition)
• Adinkra & bogolàn supplies — stamps, mud cloth pigments, muslin (Akan and Malian traditions)
• Blacksmithing / forging setup — small forge, anvil, tongs (Ogun's craft — ritual iron work)
• Calabash & gourd craft supplies — dried calabashes, carving tools, natural pigments
• Beadwork supplies — sacred beads, waxed thread, needles (Yoruba beadwork tradition)
• Drum-making materials — hides, wood shells, rope for lashing (batá, djembe, dunun)
• Basket-weaving supplies — palm fiber, raffia, seagrass
• Natural dye supplies — madder, logwood, walnut hulls, alum, iron mordants

Land & Grounds

• Ride-on lawn mower — for five acres
• Landscaping supplies — mulch, soil, native plants, drip irrigation
• Chainsaws, loppers, brush cutters — for defensible space clearance
• Wheelbarrows, garden carts, hand tools
• Fencing materials
• Fire safety gear — extinguishers, hoses, spark arrestors
• Chicken coop & chickens — eggs, land integration, food sovereignty
• Goats & goat pen / shelter — milk, cheese, weed control
• Beehives & apiary equipment — honey is sacred; natural comb, wax for batik and candles
• Medicinal herb garden buildout — seedlings, raised beds, greenhouse structure (under Egbe Osain)

Housing & Hospitality

• Tiny homes — permanent housing for artists and staff on the land
• Campers / RVs — flexible housing for festival guests and residencies
• Yurts
• Bedding, mattresses, linens — for volunteer housing
• Solar panels & install — the pre-wired shed is waiting

Technology & AV

• Laptops — for staff and archive work
• Video & audio recording rig — to capture Yeye's teachings for the Vault
• Cameras — DSLR or mirrorless for documentation
• Microphones — lav, boom, condenser
• External storage drives — 4TB+, for the corpus preservation project
• Projector

Kitchen & Festival Ops

• Knife sets — chef, prep, and serving
• Pots and pans — commercial-grade, full range of sizes
• Prep tools, mixing bowls, cutting boards
• Coolers — chest and rolling
• Chafing dishes, serving equipment
• Prep tables — folding, stainless
• Event tents — 20x40 shade canopies for festivals

Ritual & Ceremony

• Candles and cloth (especially white)
• Ceremonial vessels, bowls, altar items
• Drums
• Cowrie shells, beads, offering materials

Medicine, Hoodoo & Brujería

Herbal medicine · Ifá ewe · Egbe Osain

• Apothecary jars, tincture bottles, droppers — glass, food-grade
• Large mortar & pestle — for grinding ewe, foundational Ifá tool
• Herb drying racks — indoor and outdoor
• Cheesecloth, straining cloth, muslin
• Iron pots — traditional Yoruba preparation vessels
• Distillation equipment — for hydrosols, extracts, essential oils
• Scales — digital and traditional beam
• Carrier oils — coconut, olive, castor, jojoba, sweet almond
• Beeswax, shea butter, cocoa butter — for salves and unguents
• Palm oil (dendê) — for ritual preparations
• Medicinal plant seedlings — ewe varieties, African and diasporic herbs

Hoodoo supplies

• Seven-day pillar candles — full color range
• Figure candles, novena candles
• Roots & curios — High John the Conqueror, Devil's shoestring, five-finger grass, mullein, mugwort, angelica, sampson snake root
• Condition oil bases, essential oils — for anointing and dressing candles
• Cascarilla — eggshell chalk
• Sacred waters — Florida water, Kananga water, war water
• Red flannel, muslin — for mojo bags and sachets
• Brick dust, black salt, various ritual salts, resins
• Petition paper, parchment

Brujería & diasporic folk magic

• Copal — white, gold, black
• Palo santo, sage, sweetgrass bundles
• Veladoras — 7-day glass-encased candles
• Statuary & imagery — saints, orichas, ancestor icons
• Soperas — ceremonial vessels
• Coconuts — for obí divination
• Cigars (mapacho), loose tobacco leaf
• Terracotta and earthenware vessels

Office & Vehicles

• Printer / scanner — archive-quality
• Cargo van or truck — hauling festival supplies and land materials