i am Andrea Cayatano Jefferson. I am a Gullah sweetgrass basket artist, and I call myself a culture keeper. Never a culture bearer.

I know everything from start to finish. I may not know the technical words, I may not know the whole reasoning behind it, but anything that has to do with a sweetgrass basket, I can tell you.

That means if the plant is dying and where to get it if we're riding down the road.

I already teach my husband too, because his family sold baskets, but not to the extent of mine.