Booth Demonstrations

Many vendors offer ongoing tastes and samples of their wonderful products at their booths. A few vendors provide more elaborate demonstrations. Agriculture and Local Livelihood demonstrations at booths include:

  • Farmstead: Using a drawknife and a shave horse
  • Balky Farm: Needle Felting
  • Montague Chile Roasters (Sunday Only): roasting green chiles
  • New Salem Preserves: Cider pressing
  • Niemi’s Apiary: Beekeeping
  • Rachel’s Everlasting: Dried flower & herb wreath making
  • Pioneer Valley Heritage Grains: Milling and rolling grains
  • Prospect Hill Farm: Wheat weaving and spinning “straw into gold” threads
  • Western MA Permaculture Guild: Scything, edible forest gardens
  • Birch Moon Farm: Making herbal lip balms
  • White Buffalo Herbs: Herbal oil making (scheduled workshop)
  • Woodcock Farm: Spinning
  • Seeds of Solidarity:  Garlic growing workshops: see the schedule and stop by to try their new crop: hot peppers!
  • White Oak Timber Framers: Building post & beam structures
  • Cooleyville Farm: Making boards on a portable sawmill
  • Dave Songer: Shingle making

Artist demonstrations may be found at the following booths:

  • Firecrow Handwovens, Kathy Litchfield, Gill MA: Handweaving
  • Neeley Seat & Basket Weaving, Charlene Neeley, Shelburne MA: Seat weaving
  • R & M Caning and Woodwork, Renee and Mark Wingertsman, Petersham MA: Chair caning
  • Revisions, Cristine Levitre, Rowe MA: Woven jewelry
  • Turn, Turn, Turn: Sam Scherer, Dick Williams, Peter Diemand. Lathe-turned dreidel tops
  • Sweet Bananaberry, Ray Trombley & Darcy Rosner, Greenfield MA: Beaded jewelry
  • Valley Handmade Shoes, Sharon Raymond, Shutesbury MA: Children’s shoemaking