Crop diversity – dyes

Image 15 May 2018 gs

Dyer’s coreopsis Coreopsis tinctoria – one of many dye plants at the Living Field garden and 5000 Years – Plants

sustainable croplands

Field scabious flowers in the Living Field garden’s meadow for several months over summer and early autumn.

Recollections of the Meadow
11 July 2021 gs
Thanks to K Owen for this interpretation of the panel of interlacing on the front of the Ulbster Stone, a Pictish cross-slab in Caithness. More to follow ….

Interlacing on the Pictish Ulbster Stone
30 May 2021 gs
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