SUSU commUNITY Farm

At A Glance

Contact: 

Jess Salvas

Location: 

Brattleboro, Vermont

Primary Issue Area:

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

Active since:

2019

Tax Status:

Ad-hoc

Core volunteers:

3

Our Purpose

SUSU CommUNITY Farm is the first Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) led farm in Windham County, Vermont.  The farm has a mission to offer a life affirming space that nourishes and centers the liberation of BIPOC community members, while helping to build a sustainable and thriving community in Southern Vermont.  We center Afro-Indigenous knowledge and sciences and hope to co-create equitable access to wellness resources that can serve to address the realities of, while also serving as an alternative to, institutional and systemic racism in health, food, land, caracal, and policing systems.  Systems that to date have been used to harm rather than heal BIPOC communities from intergenerational and racialized trauma, social determinants of health and wellbeing, and community safety.