Something new for this year’s Berkshire Pottery Tour, during the weekend of September 28 and 29, is that four of the six stops will include guest potters.

Ellen Grenadier will be hosting her guest potter, Connie Talbot from Cummington, MA. Connie makes flameware pots, pots you can cook with on the gas and electric stovetop or grill. She creates tagines, casseroles, frying pans, pizza stones, and more, all able to go directly onto a hot flame, into a hot oven, or into a freezer. You have to see it to believe it. There will be a demonstration at midday Sunday, with sample bites. For more information about Connie’s work, go to highhollowpottery.blogspot.com.

The annual self-guided tour takes you through the beautiful valleys of the southern Berkshires in early fall, reaching from Richmond to New Marlborough. Admission to all events is free and families are welcome. More information and a map of the tour route can be accessed at berkshirepotterytour.com, or picked up at Grenadier Pottery studio, 12 Tyringham Road, in Monterey, or by calling her at 413-528-9973. John Polak Connie Talbot’s flameware casserole  

Each potter will host an open house and sale of their work and their guests’ work in their studio. The pottery tour is an excellent format for exposing the potters’ work to a larger market, allowing patrons to meet the maker of the goods they purchase and see where and how it is all made.

Look for the distinctive orange and white Pottery Tour Road signs at key turns on the weekend of the event.