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Above: Eva McKend reports on the Clemmons Family Farm, WCAX Television Local Vermont News. June 11, 2016.
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Clemmons Family Farm honors the extraordinary lives of Jackson and Lydia Clemmons, who owned the farm, located in Charlotte, Vermont, for 61 years- from 1962 to 2023. The property underwent a gradual and intentional transition from being a private family-owned farm to being under the stewardship of an African-American led non-profit organization as a cultural heritage asset and a platform for Black history, arts, and economic empowerment. We actively promote the deeper understanding and appreciation of African American and African diaspora history, arts, and culture. We foster opportunities to learn from our past, shape our present, and invest in our future.
What We Do.
Clemmons Family Farm mobilizes the power of African-American and African diaspora history, art, culture and people to build a loving and supportive multicultural community in Vermont-- and to both conserve and preserve the physical farm as an African-American owned land and cultural heritage asset for future generations. We support a growing network of Vermont artists who bear the cultures of the African diaspora with professional development, paid engagements, opportunities to collaborate with other artists, and advocacy for equity in the arts and culture sector.
Through our arts and culture programs, we bring people together to learn about, commune around and celebrate African-American heritage (past, present and future), and to foster the appreciation of the heritage and cultures of all people. The 138-acre working farm is one the largest African American-owned historic farms in Vermont and a landmark site on the state’s African-American Heritage Trail. In the face of African-Americans losing 93% of their combined land assets over the past century due to racism and discrimination, the Clemmons farm is one of the 0.4% of farms in the US that remain African-American owned. It is also one of just 18 farms in Vermont- a state with more than 7000 farms- that are African-American owned.
Through our arts and culture programs, we bring people together to learn about, commune around and celebrate African-American heritage (past, present and future), and to foster the appreciation of the heritage and cultures of all people. The 138-acre working farm is one the largest African American-owned historic farms in Vermont and a landmark site on the state’s African-American Heritage Trail. In the face of African-Americans losing 93% of their combined land assets over the past century due to racism and discrimination, the Clemmons farm is one of the 0.4% of farms in the US that remain African-American owned. It is also one of just 18 farms in Vermont- a state with more than 7000 farms- that are African-American owned.
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Our mission is to be “more than a farm” by offering curated opportunities for visitors to celebrate the history, culture, arts and sciences of the African-American and African diaspora in a magical setting. Our arts and culture programs include:
We also provide beautiful indoor and outdoor venues for meetings, retreats and special events in a working farm landscape. |
A RARE GEM FOR THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN DIASPORA AND FOR THE STATE OF VERMONT
Clemmons Family Farm stewards one of the rare African-American-owned farms in the state of Vermont.
According to the 2017 United States agriculture census, of the nearly 7000 farms in Vermont, only 18 are African-American-owned. Of the 1.2 million acres of farmland in Vermont, only 3,960 acres (0.33%) are owned or principally operated by African-Americans. Nation-wide, less than half of one percent (0.4%) of farms in the
United States are African-American-owned.
Clemmons Family Farm stewards one of the rare African-American-owned farms in the state of Vermont.
According to the 2017 United States agriculture census, of the nearly 7000 farms in Vermont, only 18 are African-American-owned. Of the 1.2 million acres of farmland in Vermont, only 3,960 acres (0.33%) are owned or principally operated by African-Americans. Nation-wide, less than half of one percent (0.4%) of farms in the
United States are African-American-owned.
Above: Organic black beans are among the rotating crops that are grown in the prime agricultural soils of the 148-acre Clemmons Family Farm.
The farm is open for scheduled programs and events from mid-May to mid-October.
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