Abolition In Action Farms

At A Glance

Location: 

Shoreham, Vermont

Primary Issue Area:

  • Climate Change & Energy
  • Environmental Health
  • Food
  • Land & Water
  • Living Economies

Active since:

2024

  • a Black person with long pink & black hair, a jean shirt, leggings, & a blue mask holding 3 paper bags in their hands
  • A white trans woman with glasses, a white mask, & a striped shirt doing reparations work. She is holding a metal rod to ecobrick a plastic bottle at a table covered in plastic pieces for our free housing initiative. She is at a library.
  • 3 Black people in masks, throwing up a hand & smiling, surrounded by plants
  • 2 Black people with short natural hair in a field. The one on the left is looking down & shoveling, while the one on the right is closer, grinning, & leaning on their cane.
  • a Black person with short locs, a baseball cap, & gloves, grinning & holding a calico aster plant

Our Purpose

Abolition in Action Farms grows veggies, fruits, & herbs for undersupported Black gender-expansive communities living on the east coast. We are based in N’dakinna “shoreham, vermont.” Intentionally, all doulas & land stewards at AIA Farms are Black trans queer disabled people. We nourish ourselves & other chronically underfed people, who have been robbed of our collective autonomy & sacred relationships to land. Our organic & no-till space uses regenerative (versus extractive) economics. 90% of what we grow & all our services are free, & the other 10% is sold in local markets using a reparations based model to fund our survival programs. We share knowledge about land-based, ancestral survival skills within our communities for free (& offer paid stipends to participants when we can). These survival skill sessions are about organic farming, free water filtration, foraging, ecobricking (cement-less method on ecobricks.org), community defense, harm reduction, & Black history. We also host seed & houseplant shares to improve the mental/physical health of Black folks that don’t have access to land. We grow native & diaspora plants to support land sovereignty, resist genocide by ecobricking free housing, & provide free supportive herbs (especially to incarcerated neighbor) through mail & in-person mutual aid pop-ups. We all just want to get free.