Groundswell

Groundswell Regenerative Agriculture Festival

It was a joy to visit Groundswell to speak on a panel discussion about British Natural Dyes.

I shared the panel with Pigment and Hodmedods, chaired by Zoe Gilberson.

We talked about scaling up natural dye growing, processing and production. It was great to share findings from my recent reseach project “Native + Invasive Plant Dyes” microfunded by SWE Fibreshed.

I shared my visions for orchard style low impact dye plant harvesting, as means for creating biodiversity whilst harvesting high yeilds of pigment for dye and print productions, with lower human inputs plus the machinery needed. With thoughts on creating a mobile natural dye facility on lease or as communal assets and the need to transition printed packaging across all industries to plant based pigments away from petroleum pigments.

I displayed products from the Bristol Cloth productions, books and native plant pigment printed paper goods.