🧧 Member Perks

Receive 10+% off at the following small businesses and tea shops:

🇨🇳 Grand Tea & Imports (10% off)
🫖 Brooklyn Tea (15% off)
🍃 Leafhopper (20% off)
🌿 Anima Mundi (15% off)
🇮🇳 Raazi Tea (15% off)
📖 The Other Alamanac (20% off)
📚 Eighty Degrees (10% off)
🇹🇼 Dae Tea (10% off)
⛰️ The Ridge (10% off)
🍵 Matcha Thomas (10% off)

More info about the discounts here.
Members, access your discount codes here.

Once a season, our community decides at which park we should serve free tea. Votes are collected via email and Instagram and then we randomly select from the submissions.

Previous community-decided locations include:

• Baisley Pond Park (Jamaica, Queens)
• Seward Park (Lower East Side, Manhattan)
• Brower Park (Crown Heights, Brooklyn)

These community-decided Popups are an effort to empower those who support us, explore the diverse neighborhoods of New York, and serve free tea all around the city.

More info about voting here.

Every solstice and equinox, we invite our members to a virtual livestream where we share seasonal reflections and open the floor for Q&A.

We highlight recent events and collaborations, practice financial transparency, and set intentions for the upcoming season.

More info about Town Halls here.
Members, access archives here.

A seasonally-curated box with tea and a postcard which we ship to your door every solstice and equinox (4x per year).

Each Tea Box contains:

• 6 bags of loose leaf tea (3 different teas, 2 bags each)
• A postcard illustrated by a local artist
• Info sheet with tea brewing suggestions & ingredients
• Our zine, bōcha [solstices only]

More info about Tea Boxes here.

A customized, collapsible travel cup made by Stojo. The cup is 12oz, endlessly reusable, and dishwasher safe. And the sleeve is printed with our motto: free tea for all.

We ship your Travel Cup in your first Tea Box.

More info & photos here.

bōcha is a biannual zine that we author and design to share stories, resources, and updates on The Tea Stand. We publish bōcha twice a year on the summer and winter solstices.

We ship each new issue of bōcha in your (solstice) Tea Boxes.

More info about bōcha here.
Members, access archives here.

Receive locally-made teaware, like teapots and teacups, once a year. Your first item will be a teapot made by Lilian Wu of Gasworks.

Over time, you'll receive a full tea set: starting with a teapot, then tea cups, perhaps a tea pet, etc. And the best part: you can use this hand-crafted teaware during your annual tea ceremonies!

More info & photos here.

Attend educational tea ceremonies led by local tea practitioner Timothy Chacko once a year. Ceremonies take place virtually and in-person.

You'll be invited to bring your own teaware and learn how to brew gongfu style, a Chinese method with a focus on skill, ritual, and mindfulness.

Each tea ceremony features 3 different teas and is about 90 minutes in duration.

More info here.

For any Ambient Church event, you can enter into a random drawing (of other Big Steepers) to win 2 free tickets to the show.

Ambient Church hosts deep listening experiences in churches with site-specific light projections. Past performers include Laraaji & Ana Roxanne.

Members, request your tickets here.

Experience a guided tour of DONA, a Brooklyn-based tea distributor, at their tea warehouse in Bushwick. Includes a tea tasting!

More info here.
Members, book your tour here.

Every item in our Marketplace is 100% FREE for Big Steepers.

Limit of 1 quantity per item.

Members, find your 100% off discount code here.