Our Team
Jen Salinetti
Jen Salinetti (she/they) is a co-founder, queer farmer, and a collaborative director at Woven Roots Farm. Jen is a transracial adoptee from the highlands of Colombia. She has chosen a path of deep relationship with the land to reconnect with ancestral ties that were forcibly removed from her. It is through this relationship that Jen has come to understand her responsibility for tending to community. As a farmer and community organizer for over 20 years, Jen has offered workshops and courses that develop relationships to land, build skills of resilience, promote Indigenous growing practices, and amplify pathways to social justice. Jen is a Massachusetts Environmental Justice Council member. She is also a soil health and beginning farmer consultant.
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Pete Salinetti
Pete Salinetti (he/him) is a co-founder and a collaborative director at Woven Roots Farm. He meticulously designs and plans our comprehensive crop rotation system, maintains the harvest schedule, and oversees all aspects of infrastructure and meadows. For 20 years, he has led garden education programs in the region and has been actively involved in the local food movement within the Berkshires. Pete offers practical talks and consultation about hand-scale farming, successive crop production, season extension, and farming as a community endeavor.
Photo by Aurelian de St André
Mathieu Boudreau
Mathieu Boudreau (he/him) is the Farm Manager at Woven Roots. After receiving his BA in Anthropology and Environmental Studies & Sustainability at Drew University, Mathieu returned home to Berkshire County where he has spent the last seven years involved in community outreach, education, and hand scale agriculture. Mathieu currently lives in Lee, MA with his wife and their dog Teo.
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Aviva Klein
Aviva Klein (she/they) is the Assistant Farm Manager at Woven Roots. Aviva is a queer Jewish farmer who pivoted to agriculture from classical music. Her journey thus far has taken her to Vermont, New Hampshire, Tennessee, and now the Berkshires, where they hope to dance, make music, read, and absorb knowledge from people and mountains alike.
Photo by Woven Roots Farm