~Welcome Home~

We all know it has been an incredible and intense few years. We here at ZMS sincerely hope you and yours have been well and done your very best during these impactful times.  

Those of us here on the land, those of us who live near by, and those of us who support from afar... all of us have been working together to create and share a bright vision of our future, to protect and improve what we have inherited, to craft a new message, and invite an incredible new level of support for Zuni Mountain Sanctuary.

We are so excited to share with you what we have accomplished and what we are dreaming about.

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THANK YOU for being here with us!

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Goal for 5 +  Full TIme STEWARDS

We are diligently working on making ZMS a place for skilled and devoted Stewards to call their home.

Since our founding in 1996, the Sanctuary's goal has been to house and foster at least 5 full time stewards. This is the minimum number of people we believe we need on the land to run the sanctuary sustainably.

With the loss of Juniper House in the 2017 fire, we lost essential winter housing for 5 people. We currently can only house 2 people with rooms of their own. 

There are currently 3 people living on the land.

The building of LIVE/WORK space (IN PROGRESS) will provide 2 more residential spaces, a workshop, and a pottery studio. 

That means there will be 4 individual spaces for housing available very soon!

Dreaming and Designing additional NEW HOUSING remains an essential part of our short & long term goals.

Goal for Life on the Land:  Join Our Legacy

• New Housing
• Invitation for New Stewards
• Invitation for New Board Members
• Active Committees

Goal for Long Term Commitments: 

• Once a person is granted Stewardship at ZMS, the greatest gift we can offer, permission to build on the land is also granted. 
• How can we make it possible to grow up and grow old on the land as a Steward of ZMS?

Goal for Garden and Farm: Food Sustainability & Sales.

Gardening and food harvesting has been happening at a small scale since we arrived on the land. 

The Moon Garden has been growing herbs, spices, greens, red spinach and flowers since the first year.  10 years ago Tony and Mikee created the first certified organic gardens. 

With the building of the NEW WALIPINI, a Victorian style all season greenhouse, we will be able to house and grow food all year long.

There is ponder, wonder and thought about ZMS gaining official FARM STATUS in NM.  We are looking for R&D around the Pros & Cons of declairing ZMS as a legitimate Farm.  Would doing this add to the stability of incoming funding, work for our tribe, and a delicious organic food supply?

Goal for Maintaining Heritage Buildings: Hearth House & Tea Rooms

The original founders of ZMS bought and created ZMS as we know it today. The first few years  created the Hearth House and the Tea Rooms, adobe buildings that are beautiful, made from the earth, and require a yearly labor of love to maintain.  This was thought of as a community opportunity to come together to MUD and RENEW the buildings.  As beautiful as these buildings are, they need constant attention as part of maintaining our inheritance.

Priority Heritage Buildings Goals:

These buildings are currently in a state of considerable disrepair and require significant funding, design, and labor to bring them back to a stable and withstanding condition, or we will loose them.

Infrastructure Goals:

When we first arrived on the land 24 years ago, there was nothing but an old road, and a few beautiful ponds. Wells were dug for water, and systems for waterworks, solar power, roads, heating, propane, community buildings and housing all manifested quickly, perhaps too quickly. All of these systems were small, quick, and very useful at the time.  

Now, we have out grown most of these systems, and are ready to upgrade, improve, and expand. The general maintenace and upkeep of old systems is time consuming, labourous, and spendy.  R&D for New Systems is a priority for ZMS to be able to continue to support our mission to serve.

Fundraising Goals: Running a Business

Building a financial infrastructure to support the well being and growth of ZMS has been a dominant focus for the last 5 years. Growing our organization into a financially sustainable model to support both the land and her stewards, with fund raising, cottage industry, and profits from gatherings remains a top priority.

Raising Funds for Healthy Annual Opperations Budget 

• Steward Support. 
• General Fund. 
• Road Maintenance. 
• Solar/Water Maintenance. 

Raising Funds for 2 Year Capitol Campaign 

• Completion of Current Projects
• Heritage Buildings Repair and Renovation
• Solar Upgrade
• Waterworks Upgrade
• Big Road Projects
• Land Maintenance

Visions of Our Future Together

We are inviting VISIONS and DREAMS about the magical gift that is ZMS, what she needs to thrive and grow, and the future generations of faeries that will come to dance, heal, and steward her into the future.

We inherited ZMS. We will pass her on.

In taking care of the land and the daily business of sanctuary, thoughts of current leadership being passed on to future leadership are part of our values and ethics as we plan and work on all things here at ZMS. 

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Lets Be Proud to Pass On Something Good