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Monthly Archives: June 2018

Dyer’s Chamomile

Posted on June 9, 2018 by Helen Bookbinder

Starting to harvest the flower heads from the dyer’s chamomile to use in solar dye pots

BFK paper in the Chamomile solar dye jar

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Harvesting Weld

Posted on June 7, 2018 by Helen Bookbinder

Early June and we have started to harvest the weld flowers – the flower spikes are being dried for storage

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Indian Pokeweed

Posted on June 5, 2018 by Helen Bookbinder

Phytolacca Acinosa: a new plant in the ink garden which will hopefully produce a red/brown ink from its berries later in the season.

more info about this plant

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