Free Support Services for Breast Cancer Patients in Ventura County

  • Our very first Breastie with her Breastie Bucket and our co-founders.

    Nonprofit help for breast cancer patients

    Every woman and person is unique. The first visit lasts up to one hour. We ask you about your needs, check out your plants and provide information about local supports. In your home and at no cost to you or your caregiver.

    You will receive a Backyard Breasties™ container garden and swag to help you stay safe while gardening during and after treatment.

    Can’t wait? You can shop great gear at our Backyard Breasties shop or check out our blog for Backyard Breasties Bodacious Buys. All profits go right back into serving people in treatment like you.

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  • Learning how to garden for wellness

    Free Plant Care & Pet Sitting During Treatment

    Backyard Breasties will

    >water plants

    >care for seedlings

    >weed garden plots

    >foster more sensitive plants in volunteer homes

    >feed pets

    >walk dogs

    If you are a new gardener, we will help you get started with a new hobby that gives more than it takes…plus the Backyard Breastie Bucket and a wellness container garden!

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The Things Nobody Tells You About Breast Cancer
The Things Nobody Tells You About Breast Cancer

I have a CT scan coming up.

Nothing serious.

Probably my sinuses.

Everything is a little puffy, so they ordered an ultrasound.

The ultrasound found something that was just the tiniest bit out of whack.

And now…

I

Want

All

The

Scans.

Cancer Treatment Should Not Have to Kill Your Plants Too
Cancer Treatment Should Not Have to Kill Your Plants Too

It is not small when the backyard was the place where you could breathe before the diagnosis came in and rearranged the furniture of your whole life.

Cancer treatment can make even ordinary things feel like climbing a hill, in the snow, in flip-flops. Watering. Weeding. Dragging a hose. Lifting a bag of soil. Bending down to prune something. Remembering whether the seedlings got watered yesterday or three days ago because every day has become some strange soup of appointments, fatigue, and “what did the doctor say again?”

That is where Backyard Breasties comes in.

Caregiver Comfort Kit Part 1
Caregiver Comfort Kit Part 1

At Backyard Breasties, we talk a lot about survivors, gardens, and the strange heartbreak of watching the life around you need care when you barely have enough energy for your own body. But we also know this: helping caregivers helps survivors too.