Calabash Gardens

At A Glance

Location: 

Wells River, Vermont

Primary Issue Area:

  • Food
  • Environmental Health

Active since:

2020

Our Purpose

Our purpose is to grow the highest quality saffron using regenerative agricultre pracitices. Our farm business is centered around enviromental and social justice. We are Black, Woman and LGBTQ owned and operated farm. Our farm is an S-corp and thus we have folks who believe in the mission of our business who have invested seed money into our dream to help us begin our journey. Our investors are majority Black and Women making our company  a great way for underserved indaviduals to be able to acrue wealth over the long term, hopefully helping to close some of the inequality gap existing in their lives. We will continue to grow our farm as the years progress. It is our dream to be able to build "luxury" cabins through out our property to house our employees at no charge to them while they are working on the farm in a way that is affriming, in a manor of radical love and radical hospitality. Housing our employees for free will enable them to keep 100% of their earnings while they are here. We also have plans to host educational and cultural events on the property through out the year, cooking, regenerative agriculture and art workshops and hosting in person cultural events centering the voices of historically mirginalized people. This work is important to us as we stive for a more envoromentally and socially equitable furture for all, with the focus on the people and earth rather than profits.