End of season for our first indigo experiment at the O’Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm. The farmers are now going to mow down the row to switch to a cover crop; we collected some seeds that had already set and also put some flower stems aside in a bucket of water to see if they’ll make more seeds post harvest. Following a tip from @elainekng I tried dyeing a skein of yarn just directly with fresh leaves — it looks pretty good I think!
All this experience will feed our renewed work growing indigo next summer as part of an introsem dialogue, APPPHYS100Q.
