Clemmons Family Farm

The award-winning Clemmons Family Farm is Vermont's leading Black-led arts and culture non profit organization. We support a network of Vermont Black artists to integrate arts and culture programming into community-building, K12 education, public health, conservation and agriculture. The 148-acre working farm includes prime agricultural land of state importance, 60 acres of open space, 60 acres of forest and woodlands, and 6 historic buildings.

Clemmons Family Farm owns and stewards the historic Clemmons farm. We honor the legacy of the elders Jackson and Lydia Clemmons, who owned the farm for 61 years, one of the rare African American owned farms in Vermont. Over the last century, African-Americans have lost 93% of their land assets in the US - 0.4% of farms in the US remain African American owned. Our stewardship includes careful work to preserve, protect and interpret the land and the beautiful historic buildings.

The Farm is part of the Vermont African American Heritage Trail.

Our mission:

PRESERVE and maintain the Clemmons farm in Charlotte, Vermont as an educational prototype, and a model for preserving other African-American owned agricultural land, cultural and heritage assets in the U.S.
EMPOWER a growing network of Vermont artists who bear the cultures of the African diaspora with opportunities for professional development, advocacy, visibility, networking, paid engagements, collective healing, and a safe haven for creativity that helps them to thrive.
BUILD a loving multicultural community around African-American/African diaspora history, ​arts and culture.

African-American and African diaspora history, arts and culture programs​​

• artist residencies
• guided tours of the property & historic buildings
• cooking lessons, culinary heritage programs, & pop-up meals
• music, dance & theater performances
• visual art classes, art exhibits & cultural events
• spoken word performances
• workshops, educational talks & demonstrations
• multicultural community gatherings
• offerings of arts & culture-based field trips
• outreach programming to K12 schools
• family storytelling tracing more than 150 years of African-American history

We also provide beautiful indoor and outdoor venues for meetings, retreats and special events in a working landscape.