🌐 Resource Hub
The Tea Stand shares more than just tea!
Sharing resources is a simple way to support community initiatives and encourage one another to get connected with & involved in our neighborhoods.
Below are some mutual aid groups, independent artists, herbalists & healers, neighborhood projects, and tea shops which we've worked with and/or admire from nearby.
Community Projects & Spaces
Field Meridians (urban ecology programming)
Gender Fail (independent publisher)
Green Oasis (community garden)
Herban Cura (herbal workshops)
Kaleidoscope (community art space)
Khilna Collective (fiber arts & activism)
Local Seed Savers (seed swaps)
Loisaida (community center)
Long Distance Reads (book swaps & reviews)
Mayday Space (community center)
Mil Mundos (multilingual coop bookstore & community space)
Nonbinarian Book Bike (queer bookstore)
NYC Nature Drawing Club (free drawing club)
Our Temenos (event space & landscaping firm)
PULP (art collective & workshops)
Queers Gambit (queer chess club)
Ridgewood Commons (community space)
Secret Riso Club (radical print studio)
Tea Arts & Culture (community tea events)
Telos Haus (event venue & design studio)
The Other Alamanac (re-imagned farmer's almanac)
Third Place Zine (publication about third places)
Worn Not Torn (clothing swaps)
Worlds Through Minds (global artist community)
Mutual Aid
BK Jail Support (weekly resource distributions for folks just released from jail)
Club A (anarchist mutual aid group, biweekly food distributions)
Collective Focus (artist resource hub, free clothing, biweekly food distributions)
Riders4Rights (Black-led, monthly food & clothing distribution)
Individuals
Adin Vashi (engineer & writer)
Esther Shin (illustrator & tattoo artist)
Jake Breiter (illustrator)
Jayshawn Lee (typewriter poet)
John Grund (illustrator & ceramicist)
Juice Makes (ceramicist & crafter)
LEEWAY (musician & DJ)
Lilian Wu (ceramicist)
Naqiya Motiwalla (writer & fiber artist)
Nick Deveau (photographer & podcaster)
Noah Sai (photographer)
s4tandoll (illustrator & DJ)
Sabina Sethi Unni (public theater artist)
Sally Chen (illustrator)
Samson Ceramics (ceramicist)
Sitanya Face (drag queen & poet)
Serena Kleeman (herbalist & educator)
Slug Home (ceramicist)
Sophia Livecchi (illustrator)
Taylor Maude Love (doula & healer)
Tim Chacko (tea practitioner)
Val Yang (illustrator)
Zack Young (performer & filmmaker)
Tea
Members receive discounts at businesses with the 🎟️ emoji (more here).
Anima Mundi (herbal apothecary) 🎟️
Dae Tea (Taiwanese teas) 🎟️
Eighty (tea & culture magazine) 🎟️
Grand Tea & Imports (Chinese teas) 🎟️
Leafhopper (tea newsletter) 🎟️
Matcha Thomas (wellness teahouse) 🎟️
One River Tea (tea cooperative)
The Ridge Café (loose leaf & spices) 🎟️
Unfurl (online tea community)
Looking for more? Check out organize.directory & Social Fabric for more community projects and beyond.