Foraging for Wild Medicine
Saturday, Oct 12, 1-4 pm
Join me for a workshop at the farm where we will have the opportunity to forage for colors from nature to use as natural dyes. We will not only learn fabric preparation for dyeing and basic extraction methods for dye plants, but we will discuss the ways that wild colors help us develop deep conversations, connections, and rootedness in local landscapes, learn self-expression with the colors of the land, and create a vibrant set of sample swatches and a bandana from colors we forage and pick around the farm.
Night Garden, which I have been cultivating for the past five years - is home to over 50 species of medicinal plants and flowers. I root my work in the Night Garden in permaculture practices, observation, and reciprocity, and in addition to growing food and making medicines, create handcraft out of what I grow: I cultivate broomcorn for brooms, willow for baskets, and plant a sizable dye garden, from which I transform natural fibers into a colorful, earth-based array of tones for quilts and clothing.
This work has given me a deep and sublime connection to color, both in the textiles and in the landscape; as flower farmer, not only do I cultivate and harvest the plants and combine complimentary and contrasting colors into bouquets, but I observe closely the way the light reflects the varying tones and watch which colors bees, spiders, butterflies, and other pollinators are drawn to; as herbalist, I see the deep reds and greens of herbs in an oil or alcohol extraction; and as a flower and herb farmer and a textile artist working almost exclusively with natural dyes, I spend my days tracking color from seed to seedling, to plant to dye bath, and finally to cloth.
Workshop Fee: $100
Materials Fee: $20
Saturday, Oct 12, 1-4 pm
Join me for a workshop at the farm where we will have the opportunity to forage for colors from nature to use as natural dyes. We will not only learn fabric preparation for dyeing and basic extraction methods for dye plants, but we will discuss the ways that wild colors help us develop deep conversations, connections, and rootedness in local landscapes, learn self-expression with the colors of the land, and create a vibrant set of sample swatches and a bandana from colors we forage and pick around the farm.
Night Garden, which I have been cultivating for the past five years - is home to over 50 species of medicinal plants and flowers. I root my work in the Night Garden in permaculture practices, observation, and reciprocity, and in addition to growing food and making medicines, create handcraft out of what I grow: I cultivate broomcorn for brooms, willow for baskets, and plant a sizable dye garden, from which I transform natural fibers into a colorful, earth-based array of tones for quilts and clothing.
This work has given me a deep and sublime connection to color, both in the textiles and in the landscape; as flower farmer, not only do I cultivate and harvest the plants and combine complimentary and contrasting colors into bouquets, but I observe closely the way the light reflects the varying tones and watch which colors bees, spiders, butterflies, and other pollinators are drawn to; as herbalist, I see the deep reds and greens of herbs in an oil or alcohol extraction; and as a flower and herb farmer and a textile artist working almost exclusively with natural dyes, I spend my days tracking color from seed to seedling, to plant to dye bath, and finally to cloth.
Workshop Fee: $100
Materials Fee: $20
Saturday, Oct 12, 1-4 pm
Join me for a workshop at the farm where we will have the opportunity to forage for colors from nature to use as natural dyes. We will not only learn fabric preparation for dyeing and basic extraction methods for dye plants, but we will discuss the ways that wild colors help us develop deep conversations, connections, and rootedness in local landscapes, learn self-expression with the colors of the land, and create a vibrant set of sample swatches and a bandana from colors we forage and pick around the farm.
Night Garden, which I have been cultivating for the past five years - is home to over 50 species of medicinal plants and flowers. I root my work in the Night Garden in permaculture practices, observation, and reciprocity, and in addition to growing food and making medicines, create handcraft out of what I grow: I cultivate broomcorn for brooms, willow for baskets, and plant a sizable dye garden, from which I transform natural fibers into a colorful, earth-based array of tones for quilts and clothing.
This work has given me a deep and sublime connection to color, both in the textiles and in the landscape; as flower farmer, not only do I cultivate and harvest the plants and combine complimentary and contrasting colors into bouquets, but I observe closely the way the light reflects the varying tones and watch which colors bees, spiders, butterflies, and other pollinators are drawn to; as herbalist, I see the deep reds and greens of herbs in an oil or alcohol extraction; and as a flower and herb farmer and a textile artist working almost exclusively with natural dyes, I spend my days tracking color from seed to seedling, to plant to dye bath, and finally to cloth.
Workshop Fee: $100
Materials Fee: $20