Housing Justice Program

The Ishtar Collective helps re-settle survivors of human trafficking

  1. We grow and distribute free vegetables to sex workers, survivors, single-parents, low-income and unhoused folks, and LGBTQIA+ communities throughout central Vermont.

  2. We maintain a free open-access community refrigerator located in Montpelier, VT to provide the food we grow to these communities in an easily accessible way 24/7.

    Update: as of July 2023, our community refrigerator was damaged and floated away in the Montpelier floods. Please donate to help us re-instate this vital offering to our community.

  3. We provide opportunities for community members to gain agricultural experience through training in growing crops, food distribution, and land maintenance which are transferable skills outside of the sex industry in order to provide folks more options to sustain themselves long term.

Food Justice PROGRAM

The Ishtar Collective grows and cultivates crops on a 1/2 acre of donated land.

  1. We grow and distribute free vegetables to sex workers, survivors, single-parents, low-income and unhoused folks, and LGBTQIA+ communities throughout central Vermont.

  2. We maintain a free open-access community refrigerator located in Montpelier, VT to provide the food we grow to these communities in an easily accessible way 24/7.

    Update: as of July 2023, our community refrigerator was damaged and floated away in the Montpelier floods. Please donate to help us re-instate this vital offering to our community.

  3. We provide opportunities for community members to gain agricultural experience through training in growing crops, food distribution, and land maintenance which are transferable skills outside of the sex industry in order to provide folks more options to sustain themselves long term.