Ezili’s Respite Farm & Sanctuary

Our mission as an intergenerational diversified working farmstead is to feed the growth and resilience of rural Black and Transgender community through Afro-ecological and permaculture practices. We cultivate perennial & medicinal food sources, and raise heritage breed chickens and small ruminants. We serve as an incubator hub, increasing access to the means of production for BIPoC and transgender people in the Upper Valley/NEK of Vermont. We host Skill Shares for people of the global majority and the accomplices we find in poor, rural and queer folk. Through our sliding scale Free Market approach (farm fresh food and thrifting), our Harm Reduction Heroes(c) curriculum and land based Sanctuary Bridge Program, we serve those who are actively working to reduce the harms associated with substance use in their communities. We believe that access to culturally relevant foods and nature are deeply connected to the mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing of our communities.