HatchSpace Members Innovate to Expand Access to Winter-Ready Windows
On Tuesday, Nov. 12 from 5pm to 9pm at the Winston Prouty Center in Brattleboro, Vermont, a team of HatchSpace members will test a new design of production templates that are poised to expand access to low cost and high efficiency window inserts. WindowDressers, a Maine based non-profit, has been …
HatchSpace Launches Recovery Boards Program
HatchSpace launches new "Recovery Boards" program, working together with Turning Point of Windham County, and J.K. Adams to transform the lives of Vermonters in recovery from Substance Use Disorder through woodworking. Read the article by Benjamin Lerner in Stratton Magazine.
Stratton Magazine interviews HatchSpace Leaders on Community Building
Benjamin Lerner of Stratton Magazine interviews HatchSpace co-founder, Tom Bodett, and executive director, Shelton Walker, on community building through woodworking.
Making a New Skateboard
Josie Clough, 13 of Putney, uses a bandsaw with help from Dnaiel Ciaccio, an instructor at HatchSpace and founder of First Proof Press in Brattleboro, VT during a week-long “Make Your Own Skateboard Summer Camp” on Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Photo credit: Kristopher Radder for Brattleboro Reformer
Unique Summer Youth Camps Continue to Grow at HatchSpace
4 weeks of summer camps for teens and middle schoolers offered at HatchSpace. Build Your Own Skateboard, or Rosie’s Girls STEM & Trades introduction for girls and gender expansive youth.
Hatchspace expands its reach with community builds
Brattleboro Reformer writes about HatchSpace’s community build project for Retreat Farm.
Meet Our New Executive Director, Shelton Walker
This spring, HatchSpace welcomed Shelton Walker as our new Executive Director
End of Year Message
This year HatchSpace is proud to have delivered on so many important goals set back in January. Please join us in celebrating the year’s accomplishments, and consider making your gift of support.
Photo credit: Mark Boysen via Google Reviews
Retreat Farm and HatchSpace Team Up for a Forest to Farm Table Community Build
HatchSpace and the Retreat Farm team up to engage our communities in service through woodworking. Over the next six months we’ll be producing 40 beautiful banquet tables used for Retreat Farm’s North Barn event space. Learn how you can get involved!
VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN ANNOUNCES 2024 TRAILBLAZERS PROGRAM AT HATCHSPACE
HatchSpace is proud to be partnering with Vermont Works for Women to bring their Trailblazers program to southern Vermont in 2024. Learn how you can get involved!
To Prepare Kids for the Future, Bring Back Shop and Home Ec
At a time when kids themselves seem just as concerned with “adulting” as grown-ups are, maybe we ought to give them more opportunities to learn what are as much “21st century” skills as any other writes Pamela Paul in the New York Times. Illustration by Sam Whitney/The New York Times
G6 Group Awards Made at HatchSpace
G6 Hospitality Group presents awards designed by Tom Bodett and hand crafted at HatchSpace.
Tom Bodett of NPR fame takes us to his community woodworking shop
WCAX paid a visit to HatchSpace and met up with founder and woodworker in chief Tom Bodett. Here’s what they found.
High Street & Green Wins Federal Renewable Energy Grant for Transition to Solar Energy
Vermont’s Congressional delegations shares news of High Street & Green’s federal grant award for solar power at our downtown Brattleboro hub.
Mothers’ Earth Day Recap
We’re so grateful to the mom’s who help make HatchSpace great every day. This year we asked how we could make the space work better for them. Here’s what we learned.
The Brattleboro Reformer Pays A Visit
The Brattleboro Reformer recently visited HatchSpace to get a sense of how our women’s courses are going, and what’s up with Rosie’s Girls this summer.
Summer Carpentry Camps for Girls Launch In Southern Vermont
As Vermont faces a looming shortage of workers in the construction trades, two Vermont nonprofits have teamed up to help close the gap. For five weeks this summer, Vermont Works for Women and HatchSpace will host carpentry camps for girls at their downtown Brattleboro workshop.
Rosie’s Girls Will Inspire Young Carpenters
Rosie’s Girls bring their unique and empowering programming for girls to Brattleboro this summer.
Community Service: Rebuilding A Skatepark
HatchSpace volunteers will bring repairs to the indoor skatepark at the Boys and Girls Club of Brattleboro.
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