This is a good time of year to sort out the seed harvest and divide them into envelopes to swap or give away.
The dye garden can supply the following seeds to any staff or students who would like to grow their own colour: weld, madder, coreopsis, woad.
These berries house the madder seeds and are ready for saving when the fruits start to shrivel up like these ones.
Coreopsis seed is allowed to dry and mature on the plant. Each of the little dried flower heads hold lots of tiny seeds which just fall out when you squish them so have a paper bag underneath to catch them.