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Night harvesting

Image 25 August 2014 gs

sustainable croplands

Caroline Hyde-Brown www.theartofembroidery.co.uk sent the Living Field these images of pots coloured with natural dyes and crafted paper, all made from the legume Grass Pea. More to follow ….

Pots and paper from Grass pea
24 February 2021 gs
One of a series of drawing by K Owen in the 1980s: the common mallow goes unnoticed or pulled out as a garden weed, but, like other mallows, its mucilage was once prized as a poultice or ointment.

Weed, ointment, snack?
18 November 2020 gs
‘And those who walk this blessed land ….. their souls shall never cease’ (From War Horse, Tams)

Poppies over the years in the Living Field garden …..

Remembrance
8 November 2020 gs
Selection of dye plants, dyestuffs and dyed fibres – the Living Field’s 5000-years of natural Dyes

Dye plants, Dyestuffs and natural fibres
5 November 2020 gs
Memories of summer – some of the Garden’s best bee-plants among the Compositae (Living Field collection, first published 2019)

Bee-plants – Compositae
1 November 2020 gs