The Dye Garden is in full bloom! 

Color is blooming in an exciting new project to foster creativity and beauty in the community.

With the support of Carrboro Government's Green Neighborhood Grant we are tending a botanical dye garden in our back courtyard. 

We are cultivating a space where passerbys can be inspired by the beauty of the living and changing world, critters and wildlife can find a refuge of nourishment, and we can hold interactive workshops connecting others with the beauty and magic of natural dye and ink grown right here! 

This summer we have been trying our hands at eco printing and working with different fabrics and techniques to make beautifully pigmented prints from the leaves and blooms in the dye garden. Did you know you can use soy milk as a pigment fixative on fabric, or that Japanese Indigo leaves leave a rich teal color when pressed into fabric? 

If you're curious to learn more and play in the garden with us, please fill out the interest form to help us tend this corner of Carrboro together and follow along as the blooming unfolds. 

We host monthly volunteer work days throughout the seasons so stay tuned to our website and news letter to come out and lend a hand.