Tending Futures

12/27/2025

We’re sharing this because it matters.

At Tending Futures, our paid services are not separate from our mission. They are how we sustain it. Birth work, herbal medicine, spiritual care and cultural teaching are community programs rooted in ancestral knowledge, not commodities.

When you pay for care here, you are helping fund free and low-cost births, community clinics, herbal support for elders, mutual aid for families in crisis and the fair compensation of the practitioners who carry this work.

Sliding scale is justice.
Sustainability is care.
And paying for services is one way we practice collective responsibility.

Your support doesn’t disappear into a pocket. It ripples outward into our communities, keeping care accessible, practitioners supported and culture alive.

Yakoke for tending futures with us.

12/26/2025

UPDATE: We’ll only be open tomorrow for those that need to pick up orders. Check your email for scheduling if that’s you!

Holiday rhythm at Savage Daughters🎄

OPEN: Monday, Tuesday, Friday
12–8PM

Wednesday is pickup only.
Thursday, Saturday, Sunday: we rest.

Thank you for honoring our winter pace.
🖥️ Online orders are always open.

12/23/2025

Yakoke for your patience as we bring Savage Daughters back online. 🤎
Our hope was to have everything restocked and ready by Winter Solstice. As many of you know, our work doesn’t move on a retail clock alone. We move with care, capacity and responsibility. Sometimes that means choosing slowness over speed.

Until now, we’ve always mirrored our in-person offerings online. With the opening of our storefront, we finally have the space to create something truly special when you walk through our doors. Because of that, some offerings will now be available in person only.

Many of the new items coming into Savage Daughters require relationship, explanation and proper handling. As keepers of this medicine, it feels irresponsible to release certain offerings online without being able to walk you through them directly. This choice is rooted in respect for the plants, the traditions they come from and for you.

🌟 What is available online right now:
All of our herbal teas are live in the shop. We’ve doubled the size from previous offerings and each tea now comes with a reusable infuser. These blends are crafted in small batches using thoughtfully sourced plants, designed to support everyday ritual, nourishment and grounding. The pricing reflects both the quantity and the care that goes into each blend.

After the holidays, we’ll begin adding a small selection of salves and balms online as well.

Thank you again for your patience and your trust. Every decision we make and every offering we share is intentional. That care is why Savage Daughters exists the way it does and why so many of you continue to value this space.

If you’re local, we’d love to see you in person!
🕯️ Today: open 1–8pm
🕯️ Tomorrow: limited hours for pickups only. Times will be emailed with your order confirmation.

With gratitude, always. 🧡

12/22/2025

Holiday rhythm at Savage Daughters🎄

OPEN: Monday, Tuesday, Friday
12–8PM

Wednesday is pickup only.
Thursday, Saturday, Sunday: we rest.

Thank you for honoring our winter pace.
🖥️ Online orders are always open.

12/17/2025

We unfortunately won’t be open today but we’ll be back tomorrow 12-8PM!

Our doors are open!! 🌿

Savage Daughters Apothecary & Botanica is now welcoming folks in during set weekly hours. This is a living space rooted in care, culture and community and we’re easing into being open in a way that feels sustainable and intentional.

Come browse the apothecary, sip tea, sit with a book from the community library or just be for a bit.

🗓 Tuesday & Wednesday 12–5PM
🗓 Thursday 12–8PM
📍 1250 Dauphin St, Studio 250

We’re so glad you’re here and we’re grateful to grow this slowly, together! 🤍

12/16/2025

Our doors are open!! 🌿

Savage Daughters Apothecary & Botanica is now welcoming folks in during set weekly hours. This is a living space rooted in care, culture and community and we’re easing into being open in a way that feels sustainable and intentional.

Come browse the apothecary, sip tea, sit with a book from the community library or just be for a bit.

🗓 Tuesday & Wednesday 12–5PM
🗓 Thursday 12–8PM
📍 1250 Dauphin St, Studio 250

We’re so glad you’re here and we’re grateful to grow this slowly, together! 🤍

12/15/2025

Savage Daughters Apothecary & Botanica is blooming again!!

Our herbal tea blends are officially back on the shelves. Yesterday we reopened for our in-person community and this week the online apothecary will be restocked for those near and far.

Each blend is crafted with intention, care and deep gratitude for the land, the plants and the people who trust us with their rituals. This reopening is a quiet celebration of patience, cycles and coming home to what nourishes us.

Yakoke for supporting and for tending this space with us!
tendingfutures.org/apothecary

12/12/2025

After 1.5 years of tending our little community space quietly through client sessions and order pickups, we’re finally opening our doors to y’all! Join us this Saturday 10AM-3PM at Central Midtown for the Christmas Market as we celebrate what we’re calling our First Light Gathering, a soft introduction to the space we’re building together for healing culture and community care.

This is a living space where our work is still unfolding and where your presence helps shape the roots of what’s growing here. Come sip a cup of tea, settle into a cozy corner, browse the community library and stay awhile.

And the news so many of you have been waiting for….
The apothecary is back!!!
We’re honoring our beginnings by keeping our Savage Daughters Apothecary & Botanica name as an offering of Tending Futures. Yakoke for your patience while we took a restorative pause. We’ve been moving with this full moon and almost everything is restocked. The online shop will be updated tomorrow for our folks outside Mobile.

While you’re here, you can pick up a copy of Watching The Bloom from our ED and shop pieces from our friend Bridgette at Native Designz. We’ll also have a few sweet creations made by our littlest community member Dahlia. Our whole local team will be floating in and out throughout the day so come see our faces. Everyone who enters will receive a small gift and plenty of high fives. And yes, gumbo will be served at 2PM.

We’re grateful to be part of a shared building full of artists, organizers and dreamers. Being in community with so many creatives and other nonprofits grounds our mission in the practice of collective liberation. It reminds us daily that tending futures is something we do side by side not alone.

Accessibility note: We are located on the second floor (studio 250) and there is unfortunately no elevator. This doesn’t align with our disability justice commitments and we are actively brainstorming solutions so our space can reflect our values more fully. Yakoke for your patience as we figure this out with intention.

We can’t wait to welcome y’all in!
Yakoke for being part of this journey with us.

11/27/2025

On this Day of Mourning, Tending Futures extends our love to every family navigating incarceration, especially our Black and Indigenous kin in the Gulf South. Your grief is not invisible. Your labor is not forgotten. Your devotion is ceremony.

If today stirs something in you… grief, anger, love, responsibility… let that feeling move toward care.
Our Earth and Sky Collective Fund exists for this exact reason: to support Black and Indigenous Women and Two-Spirit peoples who carry these burdens alone, quietly and with incredible strength.

Your contribution is a direct act of solidarity with the women who hold our families, our communities and our futures.

Give Back Not Thanks. Contribute to the Earth and Sky Collective Fund today.
Let your offering be a prayer for liberation, healing and a future where none of our relatives are caged.

donate.tendingfutures.org

11/25/2025

Wow, we are so blown away by the response from our last blog and carousel. The overwhelming majority of the comments have been supporting and echoing our same sentiment. If you’re new here, halito! We encourage you to learn more about us at tendingfutures.org and sign up for our newsletter for more of this content. You can also support Black and Indigenous Women and Two-Spirit peoples in our community through our Earth & Sky Collective Fund: donate.tendingfutures.org.

We do want to be very clear that Native peoples are not a monolith. The sentiments we expressed here represent our community values and what we would like to see on a larger scale; not the beliefs in values of all Native peoples. It is completely unacceptable for non-Native people to shame and attack other Natives (particularly in our comments) who may not share our views.

And now we’d like to address the multiple comments from .blueflower. Instead of ignoring, we thought this would be a really great learning opportunity. We want to name clearly why these comments are harmful because this is exactly the dynamic we wrote about in the blog itself.

In short, these comments recenter convenience, comfort and the existing structure instead of the harm, the history or the alternatives offered.

It also shifts the responsibility back onto Indigenous people:
“We can’t stop celebrating genocide until you gain institutional power and fix society.”
That framing is part of the problem.

We’re saying this with clarity, not malice:
Your comments reflect the very mindset the blog was written to address. We’re asking you to sit with that rather than explain it away.

11/20/2025

What You Can Do Instead:

1. Attend a Day of Mourning or Solidarity Gathering
Many cities now host their own events, teach-ins or community circles that center Indigenous voices.

2. Visit Local Native Communities
If you are in the Gulf South or within driving distance, come join us in Poarch for the annual powwow on Thursday and Friday. It is a vibrant reminder that Native peoples are alive, connected, joyful and still practicing all that was meant to be taken from us. Bring your family. Bring your heart. Show your children what living Indigenous culture looks like.

3. Redirect Your Resources
If you were preparing to spend money on a lavish meal, decor or travel, consider donating that instead to the Earth and Sky Collective Fund. Your contribution supports Black and Indigenous Women and Two Spirit peoples with care and dignity, rooted in community reciprocity. Give where it grows.

4. Create New Family Traditions
Make this the year you shift the story. Some ideas:
• Create an altar to honor ancestors and the Indigenous peoples of the land you live on
• Cook a meal featuring ingredients native to this region while learning their history
• Spend the day in service, mutual aid or ceremony
• Teach your children the real history in age appropriate ways
• Go outside and talk about land, stewardship and belonging

Gratitude is beautiful. But gratitude grounded in truth is transformative.

FULL BLOG: tendingfutures.org/blog

11/11/2025

The inclement weather shelter at Central Midtown () will be open tonight and tomorrow. Guests will stay in the Sanctuary, with shelter staff present and available at all times to ensure safety and comfort.

If you or someone you know needs shelter, please go to Waterfront Rescue Mission for intake FIRST and transportation to other sites will be provided. Regular shelter fees are suspended and shelter is open to EVERYONE WHO NEEDS IT, including those who have previously been banned from Waterfront.

We’re deeply grateful to be part of the Central Midtown community and this life-saving network of care. At Tending Futures, we believe that safety, warmth and belonging are basic rights not privileges. This shelter effort reflects our shared commitment to collective care and mutual aid, ensuring that no one is left out in the cold. Every act of tending, from opening a door to sharing a meal, is a reminder that community care is how we survive and how we build the world we deserve.