Holiday time is rough and capitalism is nauseating and a cancer upon the world. Still, we often create or buy gifts for people we love. Toward this end, we've selected many of our friends' projects and those of others we admire—typically small makers of beautiful and utilitarian things with uncompromising ethics—to share with you this year. Some are straight-up benefit productions for the rev. Some are just supporting rad people who do other cool stuff in their lives. And of course, lacking in humility and greedy for personal gain, we have included ourselves in this smorgasbord of wonderful outfits carrying gifties that may get your wheels of generosity turning. We're putting our stuff first, because presumably some of you came here for that, but please scroll beyond us as well!
Natural Skin Care
Holiday Lip Balm Gift Set
Wild Rose's Holiday Lip Balm Gift Set is a go-to for many of our customer's looking for a winter seasonal gift that's ready to go. Based in deeply hydrating coconut oil, softening mango butter, and nourishing rose hip seed oil, these balms provide lasting moisture without being sticky or waxy. We're proud to use locally made organic fruit and flower extracts in our balms, offering the purest flavors available.
Raven - Beard Grooming Gift Set
Available in several scent formulas including the Original Wild Man and Cove, as well as my personal favorite, Raven. This pack is the perfect gift for the bearded person, or for any who live their life in hirsute pursuit. Containing a profile based in ravensara, cypress, cedar, and vetiver, it's reminiscent of the often dark, diverse forests of the Pacific Northwest with earthy, woodsy, cool, and subtly spicy notes. Make that beard shine and smell really good.
Ginger Mint - Invigorating Muscle Rub
A powerful combination of organic Oregon-grown peppermint and fresh ginger, blended with extracts of cayenne, arnica and gingko. This deep-penetrating, spicy topical has rubefacient, anti-inflammatory, and relaxant properties — great after falling, crashing your bike, getting bonked at martial arts practice, working out too hard, or anytime sore, stiff, or tired muscles need relief and a speedier heal. Be sure to wash your hands after using this spicy balm, and only use on unbroken skin!
All Natural - GMO Free - Vegetarian - Cruelty Free, as is everything we produce.
Our goal is to minimize the social and environmental toll of our products by choosing sources that are non-GMO, sustainably harvested, organic or fair trade. Many of the fresh botanicals needed for our recipes are grown just outside the workshop in our organic permaculture gardens.
We regularly donate a portion of our annual profits to environmental and social justice groups. Past donations have gone to Cascadia Wildlands, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Unete Center for Farm Worker Advocacy, Women’s Crisis Support Team, Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, The Confederated Tribes of the Lower Rogue, Wildlife Images, NEST, Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project, Black Mesa Indigenous Support, Peaceful Uprising and Units'ot'en Camp.
Nurseries
N. America's most biodiverse—and liberatory—organic farm and nursery. Besides the amazing selection of native/forest garden/permaculture plants available, what is particularly incredible about Planting Justice in Oakland, CA is their prison support and reintegration programs which they call Holistic Re-entry where they offer living wages and peer support to help people stay out of prison. They also offer youth internships paying $27/hr, education programs, and have a network of community urban farms—they have created over 650 gardens to date. Their hugely impactful Food Distribution programs share huge volumes of food to communities in the East Bay and beyond.
Pop-up free and sliding scale farmer's markets around the Bay Area organized by Planting for Justice.
Planting for Justice's inspirational model is at the nexus of decarceration/prison abolition and community-supported sustainable urban agriculture.
When we're not planting by seed or taking cuttings from friends for our medicinal plants at Wild Rose's New Forest Garden— when we need to order nursery stock—Planting Justice is always our first choice. You should buy some plants or seeds from them and check them out if your'e in the Bay!
Blankets, Jewelry, and Home Goods
Owned by the Snoqualmie Tribe and based in Seattle, WA, Eighth Generation partners with Native artists around the country to design and manufacture incredible wool blankets—reclaiming control over products featuring Native stories and history. An awesome way to support efforts in decolonizing Indigenous American art. Eighth Generation also design and sell jewelry and some home goods.
Based on a painting by Two Spirit artist Ryan Young (Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa) that calls out to their community's traditional story about crows, this wool blanket honors the power and vibrancy of Two Spirit folks, past and present.
Renewal Wool Blanket by Anishinaabe-Ojibwe artist Sarah Agaton Howes. A really pretty one, but truly, they all are.
Jewelry
Bad ass chain jewelry in simple and complicated weaves. Handmade by our hell-of-tite bud in the Applegate Valley of Southern Oregon. Custom orders are available.
Instagram @serpentine_chains
@Serpentine_Chains bracelets
@Serpentine_Chains Brass necklace/chest piece is both elegant and brutal.
Tasteful and refined works incorporating lichen, moss, leaf skeletons, and inlaid stone work. Hand made from natural products with an organic minimalist design, these pieces are crafted by a close friend in Kalapuyan territory in so-called Eugene, OR. Both ready to order and custom pieces available.
Lichen and Tooth Pyramid Ring
Drop + Twist Pendants - Choose your stone
Prints, Wearables and Other Fine Stuff
Makers of some of the coolest silk screened shirts, hats and other apparel. Focus on classic horror, metal, goth, dark wave, anime, classic literature and rad/left politic.
Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me Sweat Pants. Because who doesn't need a pair of these bad boys? Laura, Coop, and Bob insist (Tsisni boB dna Pooc, AruaL)
This one's a classic but there's a lot to love all over this site! A portion of the profits go to The Last Prisoner Project ,"fighting criminal injustce," and providing legal intervention and advocacy for incarcerated folks.
A decentralized collective of radical print makers from Canada, Mexico, and the US. Art for solidarity and collective action. Truly worth supporting.
Roger Peet of Portland, OR brings us this relief print inspired by this quote from legendary sci-fi author and anarchist, Ursula K. Leguin (Rest in Power).
Just Seeds sells our favorite calendar—the Certain Days: 2026 Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar—which you should certainly pick up. All Proceeds go to Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP), Mutulu Shakur legal support, Sundiata Acoli release fund, Palestinian Youth Movement, Puget Sound Prisoner Support, Coalition to Decarcerate Illinois, Appalachians Against Pipelines, Community Resource Initiative- CA, P4W Memorial Collective Prisoners’ Justice Day healing circle, Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Fund, Cascadia Forest Defenders and NorCal Resist.
This is the project of our friend, visual and tattoo artist, as well as co-worker at Wild Rose, Elise and her hubbie Steve. Ripple Design house has detailed geometric naturalist pieces—CNC wood cut stickers and bandanas. Mandalas woven amongst animals and medicinal plants of the PNW and beyond.
Handsome Raven Laser Etch on Wood
A beautiful rendition of one of our favorite Artemesias presented here in the Mugwort Mandala
Just fun and well-executed retro prints.
This Nick Cave fine art giclée print, The Weeping Song, is quite cool, but plenty more where that came from.
These bees wax candles are made in Philly by Ben and Sochi Chandlers, members of the Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild, ambient musicians, and warriors in the battle against blue light/light pollution. Conjured by Mithras the ancient god of Persian/Zoroastrian origin—a protector of truth and a god of illumination—these candles are perfect for everyday use, marking seasonal transitions, and general ritual accompaniment.
Mithras Orange Wide Dripped Pillar candles. Excellent for autumnal and light-thirsty applications.
Seshet Pyramids Black. Clearly very cool candles for illuminating your altar or in ceremony at Yule or Black Mass, or wherever.
Tracy Dillon Timmins
Beautiful prints and original paintings by our friend Tracy. Her main site is here while more prints and small painting can be found here
Mask in the Grass
Conservancy Outside (Alphabet City,NY)
JosephBryce.com
Our friend and phenomenal tattoo artist has gift cards on sale. He is also making prints such as this rad piece, An Exercise in Agency, below.
Email: Josephbrycetattoo@gmail.com to purchase gift cards
Pagan and anti-authoritarian. Marvelous prints, tea towels, shirts and pins from the artist known as Sin Eater who was commissioned for the anniversary poster of the original 1973 Wicker Man, is featured in Fiddler's Green magazine, and has done album art for Mastodon. Very sick.
Harvest Wall Hanging / Tea Towel
For the morbid apiast, ecologist, entomologist, or honey addict in your life, try the Sin Eater Local honey Tee.
Designers of weird hand silk screened and embroidered textiles in Portland, OR
A classic sticker all should have in their stocking stuffer...if they, or you, do that kind of thing. Endorsement by Frank Herbert :
Police are inevitably corrupted... police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.
― Frank Herbert
High quality hand silk screened Tee The Pogues, Farewell You Streets of Pain
For the chef, bike nerd, craftsperson or engineer in your life, we present the most intense spatulas ever.
Made by our friend Josh Muir, the renowned bicycle frame designer & builder of Frances Cycles. Also well known for their award winning Farfarer bike trailers, Frances custom spatulas are truly niche, beautiful, and hand-made in Santa Cruz, CA.
The brain child of Christy Nyboer, an internationally exhibited painter and sculptor turned crafter and silk screener. The soft goods are sweatshop free, lead free, non-toxic, washable and individually screen printed by hand. Recycled fabric is used.
A little Lark's Wooden Sling Shots are extremely cool. They come with choice of colors for its ammo—10 wool felt balls—as well as choice of color for its painted handle. An excellent gift for kids. Not covered in toxic paints and safe for the youngish ones to enjoy some target practice.
Not made by hand, but little, fun, cute stuff designed in SF with a progressive-to-radical politic. Minimum of 10% of profits donated, but sometimes %100.
While this Watermelon Hair Claw won't Free Palestine or stop the genocidal Israeli war machine, 100% of profits will go to Palestinian aid via Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF), Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAPs), and families' gofundmes on Project Olive Branch. So that's something we appreciate. Buy a bunch for gifts if you can.
Ditch Projects in Springfield
If you're local to Springfield/Eugene area or the broader Willamette Valley, check out Ditch Projects, a nonprofit artist-run exhibition and performance space in Springfield. Wild Rose—Ash, myself(Yak), and the Rollicking Raizler—will have a booth at the annual Ditch Market Sunday December, 7 from 12 noon - 4pm at: 303 S 5th St #165, Springfield, OR 97477. Other booths are varied but include mediums such as ceramic, fiber, illustration, jewelry, printmaking, metal, painting, photography, product design and sculpture. Instagram: @ditchprojects
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