a living, breathing Black archival sanctuary and Homeplace

land, body, relationship, and ritual

  • 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

    the site of resistance, freedom, matriarchal love, and radical imagination

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

at SUSU commUNITY farm, we draw inspiration from the Black womanist lineage of June Jordan, Fannie Lou Hamer, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and bell hooks. we honor the wisdom of Black women who have historically created homeplaces sacred spaces of care, nurturance, and resistance.

we envision our spaces as Afrophysics portals: living, breathing environments rooted in Black feminist thought that allow us to time-travel into worlds shaped by radical imagination and ancestral wisdom. From our farm, which brings these worlds to life, to our mobile Homeplace van, which transports sanctuary directly to communities, and our luxury botanicals, which bring ritual and care into your home and body, we create ways for people to access, inhabit, and embody Black womanist worlds wherever they are.

through these spaces and practices, we offer homeplaces as sites of resistance and care, classrooms for liberation, and vessels for dreaming beyond current circumstances. by tending to land, body, and community, we cultivate sanctuary, restore connection, and ensure that the wisdom and energy of Black womanist ancestors remain present, generative, and transformative.

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plan your visit to SUSU open days

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we are opening space for you to meet your food where it grows. you are welcome to come to the farm during designated open days for to harvest seasonal Afro-Indigenous crops, herbs, and flowers when available; spend time on the land, resting, walking, or gathering with others; and be in community without pressure, structure, or expectation. all who are interested in being in right relationship with the land and community are welcome.

visit our calendar to see all upcoming open days, events, and offerings!

upcoming immersions

for Black people, BIPOC, and people of the global majority

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june 18th-21st, 2026

july 23rd-26th, 2026

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august 28th-30th, 2026

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our offerings at SUSU center people of the global majority, and allies are invited to join the events on this page.

saturday sound baths and medicine making

plant roots and stay grounded.

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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.

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updates from the living Black archive

view more at our book of days

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