Dec. 8, 2025 - The Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC) announced that HatchSpace is one of 59 recipients that will receive awards for the 2025 cycle. A total of $37.2 million was awarded to drive rural economic development throughout the Commission’s member states of Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire and New York.

Bob Audette, reporter for the Brattleboro Reformer, visits HatchSpace’s new woodworking program. “For many of us, the smell of a freshly sanded piece of wood can be sublime, an intuitive sense that humans have been smoothing, planing and …

Vermont Department of Labor (VDOL) speaks with Tom Bodett and Shelton Walker about HatchSpace’s growing workforce development programs for their newsletter, Employer Edge.

This past June, HatchSpace concluded its first cohort of a new course in collaboration with the Brattleboro Area Middle School (BAMS) afterschool program. 

HatchSpace is pleased to launch From Forest to Woodshop, an 8-week, full-time, 300-hour intensive program in wood furniture and products innovation, beginning in September of 2025. The perfect gap year experience or career-changing accelerator, HatchSpace invites you to spend your fall making something real in Vermont. 

HatchSpace, a nonprofit woodworking school and community workshop, has received one of just 25 Hometown Grants from T-Mobile this March.

In a world that’s forgotten how to do things together, Bodett – famous for leaving the light on for you at Motel 6 – provides connection and creativity at HatchSpace.

Brattleboro Reformer talks with Tom Bodett of HatchSpace and Elias Burgess of Turning Point to learn more about the new Recovery Boards woodworking program for those in active recovery.

HatchSpace has been named a Vital Project within the 2024 Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) for Southern Vermont, a distinction given to just twelve projects.

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 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.

Benjamin Lerner of Stratton Magazine interviews HatchSpace co-founder, Tom Bodett, and executive director, Shelton Walker, on community building through woodworking.

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

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.

Brattleboro Reformer writes about HatchSpace’s community build project for Retreat Farm.

This spring, HatchSpace welcomed Shelton Walker as our new Executive Director

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

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!

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!