by Helen
24 November 2011 12:19
Finished product: naturally dyed yarns
The first indication that we were in for extreme plant use came with an email from our tutor Catherine instructing us to bring onion skins into this week’s Herbology class. Onion skins? Yes, really. Onion skins. Let’s just say that Lab Room Two had a pungent whiff of Allium cepa by early... [More]
by Helen
13 November 2011 21:44
We have each of us now got a plot where we will grow (or, in my case, attempt to grow) our own healing herbs. The space is roughly the size of a double bed. Mine is a corner plot that I helped clear a couple of weeks ago. Next to an organic compost heap - could be good, could be bad, I'm not yet sur... [More]
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