Stories about sustainable makers, materials, seasonal recipes, and our journey towards creating healthier textiles.
Harvesting our Cloth
It’s the end of Summer and we’ve been harvesting our pilot Flax Crop…
The Perfect Sloe Gin
Our hedgerows are full of Sloe’s at the moment, so we carried out some natural dye experiments and foraged for enough to make Sloe Gin too!
Growing our Cloth
Last month we planted our pilot crop of Flax and our little seedlings popped up about a week ago!
Watermelon Negroni
Did you know that Campari used to be coloured with carmine, a natural red dye made from the crushed shells of cochineal insects?! We tried out the Watermelon Negroni recipe which journalist Alice Lascelles featured in her FT Weekend article…
Sowing our Cloth
This month we sowed our 300 flax seeds and visited our friends at Flaxland UK for tips about how to grow this amazing fibre…
Wild Garlic Pesto
Whilst out foraging for local dyestuffs, we came across the most beautiful wood with a carpet of wild garlic, and so decided to create Wild Garlic Pesto…