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Our Vision
More than a Farm... a 148-acre Center where everyone can celebrate African-American heritage, farming, the arts and sciences, and multiculturalism in a magical setting...
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Above: The "A Sense of Place" project is one of the 23 winners of the 2017 National Creative Placemaking Fund grant competition. This 3-minute video provides an overview of the project, which is led by the Clemmons Family Farm with its institutional partners: Building Heritage, Champlain College, INSPIRIT a dance company, the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps, and Burlington City Arts (fiscal agent). The project will be implemented with local artists, including culinary artist Alganesh Michael.
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The Clemmons Family Farm in Vermont celebrates African-American heritage (past, present and future) and fosters the appreciation of the heritage and cultures of all people (people of different races, ethnicities, nationalities, religions, etc).
Owned by Jack and Lydia Clemmons since 1962, the 148-acre Farm, with its 6 historic buildings, continues the family tradition of blending farming with the arts, the sciences, and opportunities to learn and share across religions, cultures and experiences with the local community and with visitors from near and far. |
Life on the Clemmons Family Farm has always involved a constant flow of friends and visitors from the neighborhood and other Vermont communities as well as from Japan, China, Australia, Sweden, Italy, England, and a number of countries in Africa. A large part of the living legacy of Jack and Lydia Clemmons is embracing the richness offered through multiculturalism and promoting the joy of discovery-- through spending quality time with people from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds, during work and leisure on the Farm in Vermont, around the state and in other parts of the United States and the world.
... and a beautiful space for African-Americans and others in the African diaspora to experience a special sense of belonging for generations to come.
Having a beautiful and expansive public space to visit, to relax, to learn and to commune-- a space that is African-American-owned --can be a deeply emotional experience for African-Americans and others of African descent because it is such a rare opportunity in the United States.
During this century, African-American land ownership in the United States has declined from roughly 44 million acres to less than 4 million acres of land today. Historically dispossessed of their land, African-Americans have access to very few havens and public spaces today that are African-American-owned. African-Americans own less than half of one percent (0.4%) of all farms in the U.S. In Vermont, only 740 acres of the approximately 1.2 million acres of farm land in the state are African-American-owned.
For this reason, while plans are underway to ensure that the beautiful 148-acre property will be welcoming and available to everyone to enjoy, the vision of the Clemmons Family Farm includes preserving a space that offers African-Americans and others of African descent a special sense of "belonging", pride, and joy.
The Clemmons Family Farm in Vermont is the one of the 22 official landmark sites of museums, cultural venues and historic markers on the State of Vermont's African-American Heritage Trail.
During this century, African-American land ownership in the United States has declined from roughly 44 million acres to less than 4 million acres of land today. Historically dispossessed of their land, African-Americans have access to very few havens and public spaces today that are African-American-owned. African-Americans own less than half of one percent (0.4%) of all farms in the U.S. In Vermont, only 740 acres of the approximately 1.2 million acres of farm land in the state are African-American-owned.
For this reason, while plans are underway to ensure that the beautiful 148-acre property will be welcoming and available to everyone to enjoy, the vision of the Clemmons Family Farm includes preserving a space that offers African-Americans and others of African descent a special sense of "belonging", pride, and joy.
The Clemmons Family Farm in Vermont is the one of the 22 official landmark sites of museums, cultural venues and historic markers on the State of Vermont's African-American Heritage Trail.
Your tax-deductible donation through our fiscal agent, Burlington City Arts Foundation, will help preserve one of the handful of African-American-owned historic farms in New England as an important cultural heritage asset. Over the past century, African-American land ownership in the United States has decreased by 93%- from a combined total of 41 million acres in the 1920s to just 3.5 million acres nation-wide today. Less than half of one percent (0.4%) of all farms in the United States are African-American owned.
The Clemmons Family Farm is one of these.
The Clemmons Family Farm is one of these.
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