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Our Offerings graphic. Illustrations of Queer and Disabled fruits (a peach with one arm and a hearing aid, a kiwi with a worm through them, two ground cherries with no arms or legs, and a fig wearing noise cancelling headphones) stand below a dark blue blob with yellow, all caps text that reads "Our offerings!"
Our Offerings graphic. Illustrations of Queer and Disabled fruits (a peach with one arm and a hearing aid, a kiwi with a worm through them, two ground cherries with no arms or legs, and a fig wearing noise cancelling headphones) stand below a dark blue blob with yellow, all caps text that reads “Our offerings!”

Tender Fruits Collective provides alternatives to systemic services. Our services are peer led and built around your autonomy. This means that we never report to Police, Social Workers or Psychiatric Wards. And the care we provide is in collaboration with you, your needs and your unique healing journey.

Rooting For Your Rooting Care Package graphic. An illustration of a pineapple with a septum piercing and a sugar apple with one arm and a walker are standing next to a black blob with white, all caps, text that reads "Rooting for your rooting care packages". To the bottom left of the blob is an illustration of an open box. peering out above the blob is an illustration of an apple with a worm through their head.
Rooting For Your Rooting Care Package graphic. An illustration of a pineapple with a septum piercing and a sugar apple with one arm and a walker are standing next to a black blob with white, all caps, text that reads “Rooting for your rooting care packages”. To the bottom left of the blob is an illustration of an open box. peering out above the blob is an illustration of an apple with a worm through their head.

Rooting for Your Rooting Care Packages

Every month we send out care packages to community members in need.

These packages have a variety of contents ranging from first aid supplies, herbal medicine, masks, gloves and hand sanitizer, to fidgets, food, cards and more.

These packages are sent for free and are specific to the needs babe receiving it!

At Tender Fruits Collective we know that having our tangible, material, and physical needs met is a vital and foundational part of our healing. We also know that with connected communities we can share support of all kinds from a place that honors our capacities and resources, and roots expansive networks of collaboration and care.

We are rooting for your rooting.

If you are a community member in need, and you feel like a care package from Tender Fruits Collective would be supportive to you in your journey please click below to fill out a care package sign up form so we know what to send you!

(Note: Tender Fruits Collective is not a Non Profit and we do not have external funding. All of the resources we have come from within our collective and from community support in the form of mutual aid so we ask that only those who cannot access these supports elsewhere apply)

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Peer Support Spaces

We hold peer to peer support spaces, virtually, multiple times a week to allow for more spaces for Neurodivergent, Mad, Sick and Disabled, Survivors to heal collectively without State, Federal, Medical, Psychiatric or Police intervention.

Our peer support spaces are help on Discord.

Discord is the space we have chosen to have our groups and community space held on. alDiscord spaces, unlike Zoom or Skype, exist all the time. There are text channels that are open to members of the community 24/7 to post and receive support from any community members who have capacity and resources to reply. And in addition to the text channels, we have voice channels where we meet virtually, by way of video and/or audio, at designated times every week. These weekly peer groups always have Tender Fruits Collective members who help to hold the space. In order to join a group, you will need to email us for a link to the Discord space to sign up and create your account before the group time is supposed to start.

Here are our current peer support offerings:

Peer support spaces graphic. An illustration of a mango wearing a colorful bow tie, whose bruising has creates a button down shirt pattern, as well as double mastectomy scars, and an illustration of a moldy, trans femme cucumber, wearing an orange tank top are standing to the bottom right of a dark purple blob with yellow, all caps text that reads "Peer support spaces"
Peer support spaces graphic. An illustration of a mango wearing a colorful bow tie, whose bruising has created a button down shirt pattern, as well as double mastectomy scars, and an illustration of a moldy, trans femme cucumber, wearing an orange tank top are standing to the bottom right of a dark purple blob with yellow, all caps text that reads “Peer support spaces”
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Bad Mad and Crips graphic. Green, oozing block letters on a yellow background read “Bad Mads and Crips”. There is an illustration of a rotten tomato with eyes and purple lips and an apple with worms coming out of them who is sticking out their blue tongue.

BAD MADS AND CRIPS

Bad Mads and Crips is a space to collectively heal the stigma and share in the joy of living up to society’s definition of a bad Cripple or Crazy. We don’t work, we are too much. Come celebrate together!

Tuesdays 12-1 PM EST

Suggested donation of $1-10 No one turned away because of lack of funds

Email us at badmads@tenderfruitscollective.com to join!

Cripple Cutie Care Circle. A line art drawing of a green wheelchair is surrounded by a circle of white heart shapes. Green bubble text on a dark blue background reads "Cripple Cutie Care Circle" above and below the illustration in a circle.
Cripple Cutie Care Circle. A line art drawing of a green wheelchair is surrounded by a circle of white heart shapes. Green bubble text on a dark blue background reads “Cripple Cutie Care Circle” above and below the illustration in a circle.

CRIPPLE CUTIE CARE CIRCLE

Cripple Cutie Care Circle is a space where Queer Crips and Mads can meet one another, be held as we heal, and get our real tangible needs met by the power of the collective.

Mondays 2-3 PM EST and Thursdays 10:30 AM-11:30 AM EST

Suggested donation of $1-10 No one turned away because of lack of funds

Email us at cripple cuties@tenderfruitscollective.com to join!

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Herbal Medicine Intakes graphic. An illustration of a strawberry with glasses is peaking out from behind blue colored medicine dropper vials, mint and st. John’s wort leaves. The vials are sitting to the bottom left of a dark blue blob with yellow, all caps text that reads ” Herbal Medicine Intakes.” A tiny jackfruit, wearing a tan sunhat, with a pink ribbon, is peaking out over top of the dark blue blob.

Herbal Medicine Intakes

We make herbal medicine that is seasonal, made with Crip hands, and deep deep reverence for our plant Ancestors and Mother Earth.

Our medicine is always alcohol free made with organic, non-GMO vegetable glycerin (if it is meant to be taken by mouth) or with an organic, non-GMO oil (if it is meant to be used externally on the body).

At Tender Fruits Collective we know that working with herbal medicine and plant Ancestors should be just as unique and individualized as the rest of our care. In fact, as Queer and Trans babes, as Neurodiveregent, Mad, Sick and Disabled babes we know our care must be specific to us as individuals if it is going to be holistic, effective and safe.

Herbal medicine, as an Ancestral tradition and practice, is relational. Plant and herbal medicine is a relationship between multiple beings; humans, elements, fungi, microbes, plants, Ancestors, that are suddenly in an interdependent and contextual existence with each other. How these now connected beings relate to each other depends on unique combination of person with element, fungi, microbe, etc.

That is why our medicine is always made in small batches, in season, in reciprocity with the land and Mother Earth. And it is also why we offer intakes/sessions for those who are maybe newer to herbal medicine or would just like an intake to help specifically cater the medicine each individual gets to them, their bodymind, and their needs.

In an intake you will have a completely confidential, 60 minute session to talk about things like: what your intentions and goals for working with herbal medicine are, what you are currently experiencing in your body that you are looking to call in plant Ancestors to aid you in, allergies, contraindications and sensory sensitivities.

Herbal medicine Intakes are done on a sliding scale. (For more information about our sliding scale check out our FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS)

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If you already know about herbal and plant medicine or you would like to skip the intake and just buy some medicine you can check out our SHOP

A photo of a 1 oz, amber-colored medicine vial, sitting on a speckled rock, surrounded by flowers. The vial had a Tender Fruits Collective label that says "Tulsi and Lemon Balm" in front of a mustard yellow circle.
A photo of a 1 oz, amber-colored medicine vial, sitting on a speckled rock, surrounded by flowers. The vial had a Tender Fruits Collective label that says “Tulsi and Lemon Balm” in front of a mustard yellow circle.
A photo of various 1 oz, amber-colored medicine vials lined up in a row on grass. Each dropper vial has a Tender Fruits Collective label on it.
A photo of various 1 oz, amber-colored medicine vials lined up in a row on grass. Each dropper vial has a Tender Fruits Collective label on it.
A photo of a 1 oz, amber-colored medicine vial, sitting on a speckled rock, surrounded by flowers. The vial had a Tender Fruits Collective label that says "Red Clove and Rose" in front of a pink circle.
A photo of a 1 oz, amber-colored medicine vial, sitting on a speckled rock, surrounded by flowers. The vial had a Tender Fruits Collective label that says “Red Clove and Rose” in front of a pink circle.