An Autumn Retreat at the Berbo Homestead
Join us October 9-11 for our first event—two nights of camping with guided natural dyeing and herbal craft workshops.
Tinctoria
Notes from a naturalist and natural dyer living, engaging, and creating with the ecological communities of California.
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To Listen When the Land Speaks
Introducing the Berbo Homestead Box
To Love the Wind
This is a story about wildfire.
From the Berbo Homestead
A new home in California's Eastern Sierra
Proof of Existence
Weeks pass, a month, and no mail arrives for me.
Color Medicine
A new workshop exploring the natural color and potent medicine of sagebrush
Notes on Flourishing
From fields of gold (and purple and cream and orange and pink)
From High Country and Low Country
Two new skin salves, made from local and seasonal plants with delicious scents and potent medicine.
And Then the Light Changes
Some roads remain the same, but others change each time I drive them.
What Gifts the Rain Brings
A one-day natural dyeing workshop at Birdsong Ranch in Ojai, California
On Belonging
to the Earth.
The Dyer's Almanac: A Native Dye Garden
The first rain marks the start of a new season, in the wild and in our gardens.
The Dyer’s Almanac: Fall 2025
A once-per-season look at natural color in the landscape
What the Tide Reveals II
Fossils of ancient sea lilies on the shore of Lake Michigan
The Dyer's Almanac: Coffeeberry & Buckthorn
On their natural colors and natural history
The Pinyons, the Fire, and the Spring
The spring is ten miles down a dirt road, which is fifty miles up the forest road.
A Garden of Color
Join me in the garden—for my first workshop in Ojai
The Dyer’s Almanac: Rose
On edgelands, alternative routes, latent color and chemistry
A Solstice Invitation
to an end of summer celebration in the Santa Ynez Mountains, California
The Dyer's Almanac: Local Plants
Lists of California dye plants, my master dye recipe, and an origin story