SOLD OUT Conjuring Color Blends With Kathy Hattori in New Hampshire!

Sign up for this class is on the Sanborn Mills Farm website. $700, Aug 21, 2024 – August 25, 2024 (9am – 5pm) Conjuring Color Blends With Kathy Hattori at Sanborn Mills Farm in New Hampshire is a course on how to blend colors using natural dyes in unexpected combinations to create beautiful results. The palette will be developed on natural fabrics including hemp, cotton, silk and wool, with an emphasis on cellulose fibers. We will work with natural dyes in raw, concentrated extract and liquid form, different mineral salts and indigo. Pre- and post-dips in iron, pH color changes … Read more

Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land

“Farming While Black teaches us the fundamental acts of growing food and growing community.” – Karen Washington, from the foreword In 1920, 14 percent of all land-owning US farmers were black. Today less than 2 percent of farms are controlled by black people. A loss of over 14 million acres and the result of discrimination and dispossession. Farm management is among the whitest of professions. But farm labor is predominantly brown and exploited. And people of color disproportionately live in “food apartheid” neighborhoods and suffer from diet-related illness. The system is built on stolen land and stolen labor and needs a … Read more