🌐 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)
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.