Sustainable Woodstock

Film Screening: 50 States of Sustainability - Regenerative Agriculture
2025-12-10 00:01 - 2025-12-12 23:59 (America/New_York) | Vermont
A key to combating climate change is action. This series of short documentaries focuses on dedicated people of all ages working hard at corporations, non-profits, startups and in government to drive the United States towards a more sustainable future. This section is focused on Regenerative Agriculture.

Location: Virtual. Open to stream any time during our event window.

Free Event. Donations are welcome and go to support our local arts community. Make donations at https://www.pentanglearts.org/donate

Hosted by Sustainable Woodstock and Pentangle Arts. Made possible by our underwriters VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION and MASCOMA BANK and sponsors Ellaway Group, The Unicorn, and Mark Knott DDS.

Sustainable Crafting & Community Gathering
2025-12-06 13:00 - 15:00 | Vermont
Join us for an afternoon of crafting, hot cider, cookie potluck, and community!

Crafting Stations:

Wreaths and Door Swags – We will have all the supplies needed to make your own wreath or door swag out of locally grown evergreens, pinecones, and extras. Feel free to bring along extra things you’d like to add to your creation or share with the group!

Black Walnut Dye Pot – Give your stained & well-loved clothes new life at the Community Dye Pot! We’ll have a natural dye pot ready to share, made from black walnuts foraged from the hills around us. Bring in washed items such as bandanas, t-shirts, cloth napkins etc that are made of cotton, linen, flax, or wool for best results. Please bring a plastic bag to wrap up wet dyed items to take home. *We’ll keep the pots going as long as there is color to share.

Holiday Centerpiece – Learn how to make a centerpiece for your winter table out of upcycled cans. We’ll have plenty of supplies, but if you have shallow cans (like those from tuna or small pet food cans) please bring them along!

Pine Cone Bird Feeder – Learn how to make a pine cone bird feeder to help feed feathered friends this winter.

Details & What to Bring:

Potluck cookies and finger foods are encouraged!

Please BYO mug for hot cider. We will have basic crafting supplies, but if you have extra ribbons, berries (from non-invasive plants please), greenery, pine cones, clean tuna/pet food cans, etc, bring them along!

Free event. This is an open-house style gathering. Please arrive any time between 1-3 PM.

Location: Taftsville Chapel, 121 Happy Valley Rd, Taftsville

This event is hosted by Taftsville Chapel’s Schoolhouse for Simple Living and Sustainable Woodstock at the Taftsville Chapel Mennonite Fellowship.

Film Screening: Singing Back the Buffalo
2025-11-19 00:01 - 2025-11-21 23:59 | Vermont
Indigenous visionaries, scientists and communities are rematriating the buffalo to the heart of the North American plains they once defined, signaling a turning point for Indigenous nations, the ecosystem, and our collective survival.

Location: Virtual. Open to stream any time during our event window.

Free Event. Donations are welcome and go to support our local arts community. Make donations at https://www.pentanglearts.org/donate

Hosted by Sustainable Woodstock and Pentangle Arts. Made possible by our underwriters VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION and MASCOMA BANK and sponsors Ellaway Group, The Unicorn, and Mark Knott DDS.

Window Dressers Community Build
2025-11-06 08:00 - 2025-11-13 17:00 | North Universalist Chapel Society, 7 Church Street, Woodstock, Vermont, 05091
This fall, Sustainable Woodstock will be collaborating with WindowDressers to make custom-built, interior storm window inserts for residents of: Woodstock, Windsor, Hartland, Pomfret, Barnard, Bridgewater, Plymouth, and Reading. The inserts are easy to install, removable, and reusable. They let light in, keep drafts out, and reduce heating costs. Window Dressers estimates that on average, 10 medium-sized inserts will save 85 gallons of heating fuel per year.

Join us as a volunteer to help make this event possible!

What to expect as a volunteer: Shifts are anywhere from 1.5 to 4 hours long, and volunteers typically learn one or two simple steps in the insert-building process. You will be trained at the beginning of your shift on how to do your task. Volunteering for multiple shifts is encouraged! Lunch is provided to all participants.

Not interested in building inserts? Volunteer to bring a lunch dish that serves 8 people on one or more of the days or help to manage the kitchen during lunch!

This program is made possible by the generosity of the North Universalist Chapel Society, the Canaday Fund, Hypertherm, Mascoma Bank, and Woodstock Farmers Market.

Ramen Day Film Screening and Panel Q&A
2025-09-30 18:00 - 20:00 | Billings Farm and Museum, 69 Old River Rd, Woodstock, Vermont, 05091, United States
We invite you to join us for our Annual Gathering and Film Screening of ‘Ramen Day.’ This event is a time to gather and thank you–our community– for your support this past year.

We will begin the evening with small bites and time for socializing, then move into a brief overview of our year and screening of the film ‘Ramen Day.’ We’ll close out the evening with a panel Q&A with filmmaker Corey Hendrickson, Karen White of the Woodstock Food Shelf, and Willing Hands to discuss the growing issue of food insecurity in our community and how we can each help make a difference.

About the Film:

RAMEN DAY tells the story of Vermonters coming together to create program that responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by preparing and distributing locally sourced meals made from local ingredients – as well as sharing the stories of many who benefitted from these meals. The Vermont Everyone Eats program ran for 34 months from August of 2020 until March 31 of 2023. The program fed more than 3.9 million meals to Vermonters while bringing in more than 70 million dollars to the Vermont economy on top of the 49 million provided for the program by the governor, legislature, and Federal resources. Film Length: 30 min.

Film Screening: The Ants and the Grasshopper
2025-09-24 00:01 - 2025-09-26 23:59 | Vermont
Anita Chitaya has a gift; she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real. Traveling from Malawi to California to the White House, she meets climate skeptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions shaping the US, from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, to the thinking that allows Americans to believe we live on a different planet from everyone else. It will take all her skill and experience to persuade us that we’re all in this together.

Trigger Warning: This film briefly discusses the violence and abuse in Anita Chitaya’s past that has led to her life of activism.

Location: Virtual. Open to stream any time during our event window.

Free Event. Donations are welcome and go to support our local arts community. Make donations at https://www.pentanglearts.org/donateHosted by Sustainable Woodstock and Pentangle Arts. Made possible by our underwriters VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION and MASCOMA BANK and sponsors Ellaway Group, The Unicorn, and Mark Knott DDS.

Canning Workshop
2025-09-06 09:30 - 12:30 | Mission Farm Kitchen, 316 Mission Farm Rd, Killington, Vermont, 05751, United States
Would you like to learn how to preserve your own produce? We’ll gather together at the Mission Farm Kitchen to learn how to can tomatoes, discuss what to do with them later in the season, and answer your food preservation questions. Everyone will be sent home with a jar of tomatoes, some recipes, and the confidence to preserve the bounty of your garden.

Free event. If transportation is a barrier to you being able to join us, please email Heather at programs@sustainablewoodstock.org

This is an adult-focused event. Please leave little ones at home.

Canning Workshop
2025-09-04 09:30 - 12:30 | Mission Farm Kitchen, 316 Mission Farm Rd, Killington, Vermont, 05751, United States
Would you like to learn how to preserve your own produce? We’ll gather together at the Mission Farm Kitchen to learn how to can tomatoes, discuss what to do with them later in the season, and answer your food preservation questions. Everyone will be sent home with a jar of tomatoes, some recipes, and the confidence to preserve the bounty of your garden.

Free event. If transportation is a barrier to you being able to join us, please email Heather at programs@sustainablewoodstock.org

This is an adult-focused event. Please leave little ones at home.

We are limited to a small group size due to the kitchen size. If you register but are unable to join us after-all, please either cancel your ticket or email us so that we can add someone from the waitlist. Thank you for your consideration!

Rewilding Pollinator Garden Talk
2025-08-28 18:00 - 19:00 | East End Park, 217-03 Maxham Meadow Way, Woodstock, Vermont, 05091, United States
Join us to learn about supporting pollinators in your garden! We’ll have a conversation with Stephanie Reger of Wilde Bee Farm about different styles of pollinator gardens, recommended plants, and some rewilding projects around Woodstock.

Please bring a picnic blanket or folding chair if you would like one.

Film Screening: Horseshoe Crab Moon
2025-08-27 00:01 - 2025-08-29 23:59 | Vermont
HORSESHOE CRAB MOON follows scientists, researchers and citizen scientists who are studying the decline of the horseshoe crab along the East coast. Horseshoe crab numbers have been declining rapidly over the last few decades due to the downturn in water quality, and the over-harvesting of horseshoe crabs for bait. The film also looks at the resulting crash of the red knot, a globe-trotting sandpiper, which depends on horseshoe crabs eggs for sustenance during its incredible migrations. The number of migrating red knots has dropped nearly 80% in the last few years.

The film also tells the inspiring story of the scientists and field biologists’ successful efforts to connect the relationship of the moon, tides, horseshoe crabs and sandpipers. Diligent data collection and scientific documentation is used to understand the interdependence of these populations, and guide the most effective way that scientists and the public can help in reinvigorating the horseshoe crab and red knot populations and restoring the health of the bay.

Location: Virtual. Open to stream any time during our event window.

Free Event. Donations are welcome and go to support our local arts community. Make donations at https://www.pentanglearts.org/donate

Hosted by Sustainable Woodstock and Pentangle Arts. Made possible by our underwriters VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION and MASCOMA BANK and sponsors Ellaway Group, The Unicorn, and Mark Knott DDS.
