CLEMMONS FAMILY FARM
  • BHM 2023
  • What We Do
    • Our Programs >
      • Heritage Celebrations >
        • MLK Day 2023!
        • Kwanzaa 2022
        • Juneteenth 2022!
      • K-12 Ethnic Studies >
        • Field Trips
      • Creating Healthy Communities >
        • Beneath Our Skin
        • Cancelling Miss Rona
        • A Sense of Place >
          • A Sense of Place at NEFA-CCX
      • Art >
        • Farm2Art Program >
          • Summer 2016 Farm2Art Program
        • Culinary Heritage & Arts Program
      • Farm
      • Forest
      • Heritage
  • About
    • Our Team
    • About Us >
      • Our Vision
    • Who We Are >
      • Jack and Lydia's Living Legacy
      • How Jack and Lydia Found and Bought the Farm
      • Holding On to Our Legacies
    • When Are We Open?
    • Press Coverage >
      • Other News >
        • 2019 Visitors Survey: Sneak Preview
        • 2018 Updates
        • 2017 Updates
        • 2016 Updates
    • What Our Community is Saying >
      • 2018 Visitor Survey Findings!
      • Feedback from other Vermont communities
    • Subscribe!
  • Artists' Registry
    • Are You Looking for an Artist?
    • Why, Hello there, Artists!
  • Historic Buildings
    • Venue Rentals
    • Stay with Us!
    • Six Historic Buildings
    • The Barn House >
      • The Barn House Legacy
      • Stay with Us!
    • The Big Barn >
      • "Making History, Creating Place" Videos!
      • The Historic Water Cistern
    • The Main House >
      • About the Black Locust Trees
    • The Shop >
      • The Authentica Library
      • Shop Storytelling Videos
  • Please Donate!
    • Subscribe!
  • 2023 Calendar!!

The Farm is open only for scheduled tours, programs and events during our season from mid-May to mid-October. Please subscribe to our newsletter for updates on our arts and culture programs on Zoom, in schools, and in communties throughout the year!
​

Leave us a message at: contact@clemmonsfamilyfarm.org or at 765-560-5445 if you'd like to schedule
a special event for your group of 10 or more.

Picture
Picture

​Our Vision

​More than a Farm... a 138-acre Center where everyone can celebrate African-American heritage, farming, the arts and sciences, and multiculturalism in a magical setting...

Above:  The "A Sense of Place" project supports artists and culture bearers of African descent who use their expertise to share a deeper understanding and appreciation of African American and African diaspora history, arts, and culture. Through place-based programs at the Clemmons Family Farm and outreach work in towns throughout the state, our collaborating artists help build a loving multicultural community in Vermont.
The Clemmons Family Farm in Vermont celebrates African-American history  as a continuum of past, present and future. We foster the appreciation of the arts and cultural heritage of the African diaspora. We also create opportunities for healthy dialogue around the identity and cultures of all people (people of different races, ethnicities, nationalities, religions, etc) for a stronger and more supportive multicultural community.

​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.  Of the 1.2 million acres of farmland in Vermont, only 3,960 acres (0.33%) are owned or principally operated by African-Americans.  

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. 

​We are a registered 501c3 nonprofit organization.
Your tax-deductible donation 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 farm is one of these.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE LEGACY
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR PLANS
Picture


​

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Clemmons Family Farm, Inc.
PO Box 546
Charlotte, Vermont 05445
​​Leave us a message at: 765-560-5445
​Contact us at: contact@clemmonsfamilyfarm.org
Subscribe for news and updates


© CLEMMONS FAMILY FARM. COPYRIGHT 2015. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
  • BHM 2023
  • What We Do
    • Our Programs >
      • Heritage Celebrations >
        • MLK Day 2023!
        • Kwanzaa 2022
        • Juneteenth 2022!
      • K-12 Ethnic Studies >
        • Field Trips
      • Creating Healthy Communities >
        • Beneath Our Skin
        • Cancelling Miss Rona
        • A Sense of Place >
          • A Sense of Place at NEFA-CCX
      • Art >
        • Farm2Art Program >
          • Summer 2016 Farm2Art Program
        • Culinary Heritage & Arts Program
      • Farm
      • Forest
      • Heritage
  • About
    • Our Team
    • About Us >
      • Our Vision
    • Who We Are >
      • Jack and Lydia's Living Legacy
      • How Jack and Lydia Found and Bought the Farm
      • Holding On to Our Legacies
    • When Are We Open?
    • Press Coverage >
      • Other News >
        • 2019 Visitors Survey: Sneak Preview
        • 2018 Updates
        • 2017 Updates
        • 2016 Updates
    • What Our Community is Saying >
      • 2018 Visitor Survey Findings!
      • Feedback from other Vermont communities
    • Subscribe!
  • Artists' Registry
    • Are You Looking for an Artist?
    • Why, Hello there, Artists!
  • Historic Buildings
    • Venue Rentals
    • Stay with Us!
    • Six Historic Buildings
    • The Barn House >
      • The Barn House Legacy
      • Stay with Us!
    • The Big Barn >
      • "Making History, Creating Place" Videos!
      • The Historic Water Cistern
    • The Main House >
      • About the Black Locust Trees
    • The Shop >
      • The Authentica Library
      • Shop Storytelling Videos
  • Please Donate!
    • Subscribe!
  • 2023 Calendar!!