Everyone can benefit from a relationship with plants!

Sliding Scale Massage and Pain Free Clinic

Beginning in summer of 2024, in collaboration with Bulltánica, we launched monthly sliding scale community massage sessions to support pain relief and well-being. We support people living with chronic pain, cancer, chronic illness, joint pain and injury, postpartum healing, drug and alcohol addiction, sleep issues, anxiety and depression, and other mental health concerns. We also offer quarterly Pain Free Community Clinic days providing donation-based multi-disciplinary holistic health services.

Decolonizing Yoga: for adults and kids

Beginning I n summer 2024, we launched two weekly free and donation-based community yoga classes: one for adults and one for parents and kids.

Community Food Security Initiatives

In Spring 2025, we hosted five drop-in youth classes at Duke Park focused on wild edible spring flowers, greens, and fruit—expanding access to families who could not commit to multi-week programs. We also hosted eight community garden work days and distributed prepared medicinal and wild food products to over fifty families. We taught four adult classes on edible and native medicinal plants, teaching skills to safely identify and forage nutrient dense wild edible fruit, greens, seeds, and roots.

Earth Magic Kids afterschool program

In Fall 2023 through Winter 2024, we launched the first Earth Magic Kids afterschool program with support from the We Are The Ones grant. The program engaged a dozen youth participants in child-led explorations of botany, life cycles, anatomy, and the uses of edible and medicinal plants. Building on the children’s interests, sessions incorporated art, storytelling, and outdoor discovery to foster curiosity and connection to the natural world.

Tot and Me Botany and Nature Babies

From 2022–2024, Cultivating Resistance organized and led multi-week spring and fall classes at Duke Gardens, including Tot and Me Botany and Nature Babies, introducing families to early plant science and nature-based learning.