Fine Woodwork Show and Silent Auction

08:24AM / Wednesday, August 27, 2025Print Story | Email Story

STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — Now in its 25th year, the show will feature designs by 32 woodworkers from the Berkshires and neighboring counties in New York and Connecticut.

The show takes place Aug. 30 and Aug. 31 from 9 am to 5 pm. It will be held at the Berkshire Botanical Garden.

There will be live woodworking demonstrations including Woodturning, Chinese Joinery and French Polishing. Great Cape Baking Co. will be onsite offering a full breakfast and lunch menu, coffee, drinks and their handmade donuts. At the Berkshire Botanical Garden.

The highlight of the show is the Silent Auction and 100 percent of the proceeds goes towards the educational scholarship fund which supports individuals aspiring to make woodworking their professional career.

Due to the success of the 2024 show, the Guild awarded $32,000 to nine recipients this year. Since founding the Guild in 1998, they have awarded $120,000 to fifty-four recipients.

General Admission is $5.00. Berkshire Botanical Members $3.00.

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South County Farm Grows Community

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
05:50PM / Wednesday, August 05, 2026

TYRINGHAM, Mass. — Woven Roots Farm offered the ideal venue for the message Massachusetts' commissioner of agriculture wanted to deliver: the barn.

That is where Commissioner Ashley Randle addressed a group of about two dozen attendees at Berkshire Grown's Berkshire Farm Tour.

"With everything that is happening around us, it can feel very disheartening and very heavy," Randle said Wednesday after the group shared a meal in Woven Roots' community gathering room. "And two things that I've talked about have been leading in community and with compassion.

"And, certainly, Woven Roots has embodied that every day."

Jen and Pete Salinetti founded Woven Roots at the turn of the 20th century on a quarter acre of land they owned in Lee.

Today, they have almost 850 garden beds on 2 and a half acres in Tyringham, where they moved full-time in 2014.

The community-supported agriculture farm produces 70 crops and produces enough food for 1,600 people per week, Jen Salinetti said while leading a tour of the property the couple leases on McCarty Road.

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