The Land In Black Hands Land Base is a 50+ acre hub for hands-on learning in ecological and agricultural practices. This transformative sanctuary provides land access, housing, and opportunities for land-based education for Indigenous, Black, and Brown communities.
The land hosts workshops, walks, and gatherings that honors multiple ways of knowing—from herbal and mushroom education to plant-as-medicine walks and intergenerational storytelling. Youth programs invite young people to explore, build, and simply be on the land, strengthening connection and curiosity through hands-on experience.
LIBH Land Base located off Wilbur Ave in the City of Kingston
Workshops, Visitors and Tours
LIBH land base welcomes site visits and land tours that bring together community groups, youth, growers, funders, and academic partners for shared learning and time on the land. Multi-generational gatherings create space for meals, stories, movement, and visioning—helping to nurture a growing community of care rooted in food sovereignty, land-based healing, youth pathways, and Black agrarian traditions.
The land base is not currently open to the public but is available for land tours. Reach out to shaniqua@kingstonlandtrust.org to book a tour for your organization. 
Beautiful day on the land touring with Bard College’s incoming environmental policy & education graduate students
Costa teaches about Chinese Chestnut harvesting, Men’s group sharing stories and brainstorming land use and the Hudson Valley Alliance for Housing & Conservation Tour
Activating the Land, Gently
Early groundwork has begun for a future food forest and teaching garden, pollinator habitat was planted, and youth learning beds.. Volunteer learning days, youth workdays and internships, and hands-on workshops in food forestry, mushroom cultivation, herbal knowledge, and community gardening bring steady energy to the land.
Welcome Space and Food Forest ideas
Site Plan Draft
Community support, volunteers and donations directly help us build a thriving food forest and teaching garden, and expand hands-on programs for kids, teens, and families to learn, heal, and grow together.
We’re planting seeds for the future—and this is the moment when they need tending. Whether you offer time, resources, or care, your support helps turn vision into lived experience. The land is calling.