Our Roots

Woven Roots Farm is a traditional, hand-scale vegetable farm, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, and education center located on unceded Mohican land in the present-day Berkshire hills of Western Massachusetts.​ Through a deep relationship with the land and one another, we commit to feeding, educating, and empowering our community members by co-creating pathways to become healthier individuals, ethical growers, and caretakers of the earth and one another.

When we, co-founders Jen and Pete Salinetti, began farming 23 years ago with an honor-box farm stand, they didn’t know how far this path would take us. In 2005, they transitioned into a full-time farming lifestyle, implementing no-till, hand-scale production methods, which allowed them to work in deep relationship with the land, sequester carbon, and ultimately offer the community vibrant, beautiful food. The transition came at a time when they were beginning a family. They were determined to find a way to care for themselves, care for the land, and be fully present as parents for their children. Initially, they provided food to various independent and community-owned businesses and local restaurants. As their personal journey expanded, there became a deepening awareness of the privilege and inequity of access to healthy local food in our community.

In response to this, and with the support of 10 regular farm stand customers, Jen and Pete pivoted away from providing food for restaurants—a place where only a few and privileged have the ability to benefit from—towards a CSA farming model based on Indigenous land practices that focused on the inextricable connection between land and people.

In 2010, they started a seasonal CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program as a way to provide direct access to fresh, vibrant food at an affordable price. The initial shift to a CSA model began their commitment to creating equitable access to food. ​With the support of Berkshire Grown, a community agricultural organization, they launched a Solidarity Share Fund—a program that supports the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) community and other marginalized neighbors by providing direct access to fresh food and knowledge sharing at an affordable price. This has grown into our equitable sliding scale model and our food sovereignty program, Seeding Solidarity, created in collaboration with our sibling farm, Finca Luna Búho.

As we strengthened our relationship with our community members both above and below the soil, our farm team grew. We now have a team of ten farmers collaborating to generate vibrant, fresh produce for our neighbors. In tandem with growing produce full-time, Woven Roots Farm also focuses on sharing our practices and helping community members reconnect to Earth’s natural rhythms and teachings from toddler to elder age.