Abolition In Action

At A Glance

Contact: 

Zulema Ramos

Location: 

Shoreham, Vermont

Primary Issue Area:

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

Active since:

2024

  • the view from behind of a Black person with long pink and black hair, a jean shirt, leggings, & pink backpack watering a raised stone bed from a pail
  • a Black person with long pink and black hair, a jean shirt, leggings, & a blue mask holding 3 paper bags in their hands
  • a Black woman in a light blue mask, green bucket hat, & green tank top, with hydrangea flowers in her hands, standing on a porch
  • a white woman with glasses, a white mask, & a striped shirt, holding a metal rod to ecobrick a plastic bottle at a table covered in plastic pieces, at a library
  • 3 Black people in masks, throwing up a hand and smiling in a garden

Our Purpose

Abolition in Action grows veggies, fruits, and herbs for, and with, undersupported Black communities in the East coast. We are based in N’dakinna “shoreham, vermont” and Lenapehoking "philadelphia, pennsylvania." Intentionally, all our stewards are Black trans queer people. We nourish chronically underfed people who have been robbed of our autonomy and sacred relationships to land. Our organic and no-till spaces use regenerative (versus extractive) economics. 90% of what we grow is free, and the other 10% is sold in local markets using a reparations based model. We grow, forage, share, and educate about land based Indigenous survival skills within our communities for free (and offer paid stipends to participants when we can). These survival skill sessions are about organic farming, free water filtration, foraging, ecobricking (ecobricks.org), community defense, harm reduction, and Black history. We also do seed and 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 Indigenous sovereignty and resist cultural genocide, and provide free supportive herbs for Black folks on the East coast (including incarcerated folks) through mail and in-person mutual aid pop-ups. We all just want to get free.