Coreopsis tinctoria Dyer’s Coreopsis is one of the earliest dye plants to flower on the farm. We sow it in very early spring and it bursts into cheerful yellow and maroon flowers by the beginning of June. Coreopsis produces an abundance of tiny flowers that can be somewhat time consuming to harvest. We pick them […]

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Japanese Indigo, Persicaria tinctoria It seems utterly magical that a fairly unassuming green leafy plant can create such a vibrant blue from its leaves! The only hint at what’s to come is when the leaves show distress and turn blue – like they do after an early frost. Japanese indigo just loves our clay soil […]

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