CLEMMONS FAMILY FARM
  • What We Do
    • About Our Programs >
      • K-12 Ethnic Studies
      • Creating Healthy Communities >
        • Cancelling Miss Rona
        • A Sense of Place >
          • A Sense of Place at NEFA-CCX
      • The Agitators
      • Art >
        • A bit about the Art
        • Farm2Art Program
        • Culinary Heritage & Arts Program
      • Farm
      • Forest
      • Our Heritage
  • About
    • About Us >
      • Our Vision
      • Our Plans for the Center
    • 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
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  • The Storytelling Room
    • Alone Together With Words That Heal
    • Juneteenth in the Air Program (2020)
    • 2018 To Sing of Common Things
    • Family Storytelling >
      • Farm Storytelling Channel
      • Our Storytelling >
        • Heritage, Farm & Family Stories >
          • Louisiana and Arkansas: 1800s - 1920s
          • From the South to the Mid-West: 1930s to 1950s
          • Finding and Buying the Farm
        • Vermont2Africa and Back Stories
  • 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
      • The Barn House Library
      • 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 >
      • Shop Storytelling Videos
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Farm is closed to the public through August 2020.
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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...

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 Family Farm is one of these.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE LEGACY
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Contact us at: contact@clemmonsfamilyfarm.org
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Leave us a message at: 765-560-5445

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  • What We Do
    • About Our Programs >
      • K-12 Ethnic Studies
      • Creating Healthy Communities >
        • Cancelling Miss Rona
        • A Sense of Place >
          • A Sense of Place at NEFA-CCX
      • The Agitators
      • Art >
        • A bit about the Art
        • Farm2Art Program
        • Culinary Heritage & Arts Program
      • Farm
      • Forest
      • Our Heritage
  • About
    • About Us >
      • Our Vision
      • Our Plans for the Center
    • 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!
  • The Storytelling Room
    • Alone Together With Words That Heal
    • Juneteenth in the Air Program (2020)
    • 2018 To Sing of Common Things
    • Family Storytelling >
      • Farm Storytelling Channel
      • Our Storytelling >
        • Heritage, Farm & Family Stories >
          • Louisiana and Arkansas: 1800s - 1920s
          • From the South to the Mid-West: 1930s to 1950s
          • Finding and Buying the Farm
        • Vermont2Africa and Back Stories
  • 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
      • The Barn House Library
      • 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 >
      • Shop Storytelling Videos
  • Please Donate!
    • Subscribe!