Natural Dye Garden Kit

Natural Dye Garden Kit

$150.00

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Natural Dye Garden kits include:

  • Seedling tray – 10×20

    • List of seeds and seedlings

      • Japanese Indigo seedlings / Annual / 6 seedlings

      • Weld /Biannual /4 seedlings

      • Dyer’s Chamomile / perennial / 3 seedlings

      • Dyer’s coreopsis / annual / 4 seedlings

      • Madder seedling / perennial / 4 seedlings

      • Black night scabiosa / annual/ 4 seedlings

      • African Marigold / annual / 4 seedlings

      • Black bachelor button / annual / 4 seedlings

      • Tickweed / perennial / 2 seedlings

      • Rudbeckia / perennial / 2 seedlings

      • Seed Packet -Hopi black dye sunflower seed packet 25 seeds

  • Sustainable Inks Color Chart Poster -1 22” x 30” poster – Made by Blossom Bogon Forese ‘24 w/ professor  Lisa Sanditz

  • 1 Riseograph Infor Zine  – Made by students in 2025 with professor  Beka Geodde (marigold, indigo, greenthread, and Hopi black dye sunflower)

  • Natural Dye Garden Basic Growers Guide

  • Special invitation to a Dye Garden Growers workshop – Date TBD in March and April.

  • Natural plant dye demonstrations with Bard College Natural Dye course students on May 8th between 3 and 6pm w/ additional natural dye information handouts.

Additional Details:

  • Complete kits can be picked up at Bard Farm’s annual Spring Fest on May 8th between 3 and 6pm at Bard Farm.

  • All seeds and seedlings have been propagated from saved seeds grown out by Bard Farm and Studio Arts students and were harvested  during the 2025 growing season..

  • We will do our best to get you the above listed plants and numbers. Each kit is guaranteed to have at least 35 natural dye seedlings and a packet of Hopi Black Dye sunflower seeds propagated by Bard Farm and Studio Arts students.

  • Proceeds from these kits will help directly support a Bard Farm student worker in the harvesting, maintenance and care of our Natural Dye Garden.

  • These kits are a love letter rooted in an ongoing collaboration between Bard Farm and Bard Studio Arts. A special thank you to all the students who have put their hands, hearts, heads and amazing creativity  into this work, along with the incredible vision and leadership of professor Beka Geode along with professor Lisa Sanditz and Adrian Colburn.