It’s Gallery Walk season—Come and see us!
Stop by and see Swords to Plowshares, VT during Gallery Walk in Brattleboro, on the first Fridays in the months of May – October, from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. We will be set up in the Harmony Lot on Elliot St. There will be information about our organization, garden tools made from unwanted guns for sale, t-shirts for sale, and FREE gun locks. More info about Gallery Walk in general at https://www.brattleboro.com/downtown/gallery-walk/
Save the Date: Friday, August 7
Our next educational event and forge demonstration will be held during the August Gallery Walk on the lawn in front of the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, 10 Vernon Street. Speakers will include several board members: Windham County Sheriff Mark Anderson; Fred Breunig, treasurer; and Katie Allaway, secretary. Attendees will have the opportunity to wield a hammer at the anvil to begin turning a gun part into a garden tool guided by our blacksmith, Will Alderfer.
Putney School Students Transform Firearms Into Garden Tools
“Retired Episcopal Suffragan Bishop [of Connecticut] Jim Curry, ignites his propane forge in the courtyard of the Parish of the Epiphany… Slowly he heats the barrel of a dismantled rifle to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and then starts hammering the red-hot metal on his anvil. In minutes, a piece of once-deadly weaponry transforms into a humble weeding tool.” Read article at Christian Science Monitor
Dispose
Donate your unwanted firearms.
Responsibly dispose of your unwanted firearms i.e. rifles, shotguns, handguns to the Windham County Sherriff.
The gun parts will be used by blacksmiths and blacksmith apprentice students and transformed into garden tools and works of art.
Transform
Experience forging gun parts to garden tools.
Symbols are powerful. Our hope is that the symbolic transformation of firearms to garden tools and works of art will raise awareness and send a positive and hopeful message.
Please contact us for a visit to your school, faith community, civic organization or other venue for a presentation. Watch us forge. Try your hand at the anvil.
Give Back
The garden tools are gifted to the community.
Your participation through donations, hearing our presentation, or partnering with us makes our homes safer and helps reduce gun violence.
The transformed garden tools are given back to the community. Our past recipients include Edible Brattleboro and SUSU Community Farm.
Give Today!
Thanks to your generous donations, we now have our own portable forge to use at community demonstrations of the transformation of guns into garden tools.
We continue to need and welcome your donations. The button below will give you further information on how to donate. Thank you for whatever you are able to give.
(left) A portable forge heating gun metal to be transformed into a garden tool. Participants learn about gun safety and prevention of gun violence.
Secure Your Firearms
Free Gun Safety Locks
In the United States, unintentional injury is the fourth leading cause of death among infants (i.e., children aged <1 year) and is the top cause of death among children and adolescents aged 1–17 years; firearms are a leading injury method. Unsecured firearms (e.g., unlocked and loaded) are associated with risk for unintentional childhood firearm injury death.
U.S. Centers For Disease Control And Protection