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 and making candles
- Rachel’s Everlasting: herbal wreath and swag making
- Prospect Hill Farm: Wheat weaving
- Warm Colors Apiary: Honeybees and honey production
- Western MA Permaculture Guild: Hand and bow drill, hide tanning and weaving
- Birch Moon Farm: using and enjoying herbs
- White Buffalo Herbs: Herbal tincture making (scheduled workshop)
- Woodcock Farm: Spinning
- Seeds of Solidarity: Garlic growing workshops: scheduled workshops
- White Oak Timber Framers: Building post & beam structures
- Cooleyville Farm: Making boards on a portable sawmill
- Dave Songer: Shingle making
- PV²: Solar electricity for the main stage
- Ben’s Bins: vermi-culture (worms!)
- Turn, Turn, Turn: Wood turning on a lathe. Sign up to make your own bowl
Artist demonstrations may be found at the following booths:
- Blue Dog Leather and Saddles – Keith LaRiviere, Orange MA: Hand Stitching and Carving
- Firecrow Handwovens – Kathy Litchfield, Gill MA: Weaving on Four Harness Harrisville Loom
- LWF-Designs in Fiber – Lynn Watson Fisher, Colrain MA: Spinning
- Moonshine Design at Keldaby - Cynthia Herbert, Colrain MA: Spinning
- Olde County Quilting – Carolyn Bessette, New Salem MA: Fabric painting and discharge dyeing
- R & M Caning and Woodwork – Renee and Mark Wingertsman, Petersham MA: Chair caning
- Rhonda’s Pots – Rhonda Wainshilbaum, Leyden MA: Sculpting clay birds and dragons
- Shanti’s Creations – Shanti Stark, Wendell, MA: Instrument Creation and Playing
- The Summit Designers - Ginny Marshall and Nicol Wander, Orange MA: Felting/Puppet Dancing
- Simple Shoemaking, Sharon Raymond, Shutesbury MA: Children’s shoemaking
