Bristol Solar Co-op aims to assist Clemmons Family Farm
The Bristol Community Solar Co-op is coming to fruition with a little added benefit to support Clemmons Family Farm.
UPDATE: Commission finds VSP committed racial, gender discrimination against Clemmons Family Farm director
Dr. Lydia Clemmons, director of the Clemmons’ Family Farm, suffered illegal racial and gender discrimination at the hands of Vermont State police, according to a 5-0 vote by the Vermont Humans Right Commission.
Rendering the Clemmons Family Farm vision
A year ago at a breakfast Alice Outwater hosted at Shelburne Farms, Lydia Clemmons (the younger) alerted me to her family’s plans to transform their farm into an African American Heritage and Multicultural Center here in Charlotte. I was impressed with their undertaking and drawn in by Lydia’s enthusiastic rendering of the Clemmons Family Farm vision. But it was meeting Jackson and Lydia (the elder) Clemmons and listening to their inspiring and often poignant stories about their lives in Charlotte as well as their family history back to the time of slavery that fully engaged my heart.
A Maasai cultural event popped up at the Barn House
A Maasai cultural pop-up event took place in the Barn House at the Clemmons Family Farm on Jan. 22….