MERCY HOUSE FARM & RETREAT CENTER | A Living Sanctuary for Love, Land, and Memory

The Mercy House Mission & Vision:

At a time when Black communities continue to face displacement, environmental racism, and economic precarity, Mercy House demonstrates how regeneration can be both spiritual and structural.

Across the nation, a new wave of reverse migration is unfolding as Black families and cultural leaders seek to return to ancestral Southern lands. Mercy House serves as a landing place for this movement, offering a model for how healing, entrepreneurship, and ecological restoration can coexist.

Our work connects the call for reparations to the practice of land reclamation, turning once-oppressive geographies into places of belonging and cooperative wealth. By restoring 90 acres of Black-owned land in Pulaski, Tennessee, a site historically associated with the origins of the Klan, we are transmuting the legacy of violence into a blueprint for collective healing and prosperity.

Mercy House’s three project scopes form an economic ecosystem designed to nurture:

Workforce development through ecological and cultural skill-building
Economic sovereignty through cooperative business models and revenue-sharing
Co-living and co-wellness through shared stewardship and time-share opportunities
Profit-sharing and community investment that recirculates wealth within the cooperative

PROJECT SCOPE

The Mercy House Retreat & Training Center: A sanctuary for cultural preservation, leadership development, and collective healing.

• Bed-and-Breakfast for wellness travelers
• Training hub for facilitators, farmers, and artists
• Venue for corporate, creative, and restorative retreats

The Mercy House Regenerative Agroforestry Farm: A 60-acre agroecological system integrating:
• Tree nut & mushroom cultivation (black walnut, hickory, lion’s mane, reishi) • Apiary & apothecary production for herbal wellness products
• Muscadine vineyard & juicery showcasing Southern heritage crops

The Mercy House Eco-Village Cooperative: A 15-acre cooperative living model with:
• Shared-equity homes for cultural practitioners & land stewards • Renewable-energy infrastructure
• Community farm & cooperative enterprise incubator

In today’s social and political climate, where equity, sustainability, and reparative economics are converging. Mercy House offers a tangible, holistic response. It stands as a demonstration of what becomes possible when we restore relationship to Love, Land, and Memory and when justice is not merely an idea, but a living landscape.

Mercy House commits to healing historical harm and regenerate land, culture, and economy through cooperative ownership, ecological design, and narrative restoration. We aim to become a Black agrarian model for liberation ecology, where economic sovereignty, creative consciousness, and ancestral reverence converge to cultivate the next generation of land stewards, wellness leaders, and cultural practitioners.

Contact Us: Email: contactmercyhouse@gmail.com

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Visit Us: www.mercyhousefarm.org

Mercy House Farm & Retreat Center: A Sanctuary for Love, Land & Memory

A Sanctuary Dedicated to Southern Return Economy

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