sea island indigo

Kim Cihlar, editor of Fashion Whirled was able to come and spend the day with us recently on our big indigo retreat with Sea Island and write a story on it. It’s always so interesting to see all the different viewpoints of an event and we love hers. Check out her story and all her […]

We had so much fun at the first Sea Island Indigo retreat in Charleston last week. Check out the post Heather Powers wrote up on the event as well as some wonderful images she took of our weekend picking, dyeing and eating well on the farm. More here… Image of Kathy Hattori by Heather K. […]

272 years after the first successful indigo crop was planted in the Carolina colonies, Donna Hardy of Sea Island Indigo got an idea to research and track down the original strain of indigo plants that were grown in colonial Charleston. Her research and persistence located a few remaining varieties in isolated areas that had been […]