It’s time for Gallery Walk – 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. See https://www.brattleboro.com/downtown/gallery-walk/
Demonstration proceeded despite overcast skies
In spite of the rain and overcast skies, there were about 40 people at our Demonstration and educational event on May 4, at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church. Among the speakers were Tom Ely, our late president; Katie Allaway, secretary; and board member Mark Anderson, Windham County Sheriff. Some of the attendees took turns with a hammer at the anvil to begin to turn a gun part into a garden tool.
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!
Our 2024 Giving Tuesday appeal successfully raised over $1000, and we received the matching gift. Thank you to all who gave to our Giving Tuesday appeal! Your gifts helped us to buy a portable forge and blacksmithing tools for our traveling community presentations.
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