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a living Black archive
land, ritual, and community

  • sanctuary

    sanctuary is a practical necessity for Black freedom.
    it happens in kitchens, gardens, porches, praise houses, and fields
    where we have made ways to live
    when the world was organized against Black survival.

    sanctuary is a Black practice of care, survival, freedom, and future-making
    and SUSU is one present-day site where that practice is honored and exercised

  • liberation

    Black history shows that liberation is built

    through land tended collectively, food shared deliberately,

    and care organized as infrastructure.

  • homeplace

    “Homeplace has been a site of resistance. Its structure was defined less by whether or not black women and men were conforming to sexist behavior norms and more by our struggle to uplift ourselves as a people, our struggle to resist racist domination and oppression.”

    “We can make homeplace that space where we return for renewal and self-recovery, where we can heal our wounds and become whole.”

    “To name homeplace as a site of resistance is to recognize the importance of the private sphere in sustaining political struggle.”

    —bell hooks

  • SUSU's sigil

    our logo has the letters SUSU and the golden stool sits atop of the logo. it’s a sigil and is inspired by spiritual symbols in our ancestral traditions. symbolizing our collective power that exists inside the culture we are creating.

    SUSU exists to remind us of our innate power to reclaim just as hoodoo and so many of our ancestral traditions teach us.

who we are

SUSU commUNITY farm was created to offer life affirming spaces for Black, Indigenous, People Of Color to thrive.

we believe food, safety, commUNITY, and joy are our birth right.

more about us

  • SUSU commUNITY farm is an afroindigenous farm located on 37 acres along the Wantastegok (west river) in so called newfane, vt. SUSU offers land based opportunities for human kin to connect with and build relationship with human and non human kin

    along with developing the botanica, operating csa’s, providing programs and events, we also offer plant walks and tours on the farm

    more on SUSU farm

  • a lovingly curated collection of small batch spiritual, magical and medicinal herbal products formulated with intention and crafted at the speed of trust

    shop botanica

  • a 20 week csa program for people of the global majority and their families, centering culturally relevant african diasporic fruits, veggies, herbal remedies, and beautiful items from local and small businesses

    more on box or resilience (csa)

  • through online and in person engagement, we provide a variety of programming to intentionally build healthy and thriving multigenerational commUNITY

    • a range of programs and events that center safety and belonging for people of the global majority

    • trauma conscious school of liberation

    • youth to liberation pipeline

    view programs

    view events

  • in person and virtual classes to support people in developing a relationship with our traditional foodways. through this program, participants gain crucial skills to preserve culturally important traditions and practices for working with food as a source of wellbeing

    more on food as medicine

  • we are so excited to connect with new people and organizations who share alignment in values. we collaborate with intention which often means with a slower pace

    find out ways to collaborate with SUSU

  • integrate

    to remember our wholeness, to restore our relationship to freedom and grief, to liberation and rage, to allow the wisdom in our bones to speak the stories that our bodies long to hear

  • cultivate

    to nurture and tend to our ever growing relationships with the land and each other

  • co-liberate

    facilitating containers of communal and collective education to learn from and with each other

  • afro-indigenous

    deeply rooted in Afroindigenous culture and spirituality, which is the heart of our organizational identity

past programs

stay tuned for new offerings!

view all programs

to the ones who planted seeds of liberation against all odds, and to the ones who chose the water.
we are because you are.

spiritual, magical and medicinal herbs

the SUSU botanica is a lovingly curated collection of small batch spiritual, magical and medicinal herbal products formulated with intention and crafted at the speed of trust on unceded Abenaki land in vt.

our seasonal rotation of signature products reflects the both rhythmic biodiversity of the lands we tend and the traditional wisdom and creativity of our Afro-indigenous ancestors.

shop botanica

plant roots and stay grounded.

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