from seed, to soil, to dye, to craft
a series of natural dye, gardening, and craft skill-share workshops
It is a pleasure to gently move through these seasons and to learn together – of care, craft, interdependency, soil, stewardship – and more that can only be recorded in the ephemeral. Here we celebrate the time this has made.
With deep thanks to all those who have been a part of and supported these workshops. To Astrid, Beth, Chiara, Ciaran, Euysun, Helen, Ioanna, Jeong, Kitty, Marie, Meadhbh, Megan, Mia, Polina, Rachel, Sarah, Sarah, and Simone.
Love, Ted
Part One: Seed Stewardship
sowing the seeds, Spring
“Never take the first plant you find, as it might be the last—and you want that first one to speak well of you to the others of her kind.” – Kimmerer
~ The Seed Ambassadors Project zine
~ The Seed Pod, Episode 2 – Seeds
~ Kimmerer, Robin Wall. 2020. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (UK: Penguin Random House)
~ Ward, Alie. 23rd November 2022. Indigenous Pedology (SOIL SCIENCE) with Dr. Lydia Jennings. Ologies. <https://www.alieward.com/ologies/indigenouspedology>
Part Two: Linearity
gardening, Spring/Summer
~ The “pace of ecological care” – Puig de la Bellacasa, María. 2017. Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press)
~ Jess Bailey, Kim Lightbody. 2021. ‘Racial Justice is Land Justice’, Tatter, Issue 2 – Earth https://tatter.org/issues/issue-2/articles/racial-justice-is-land-justice/
Part Three: Care as a process
harvesting and dyeing, Summer
“A form of care that surpasses traditional imaginaries of the intimate” – Méndez de la Brena
“Care must enable dependency without the expectation of exchange” & “dependency produces surplus” – Carolyn Lazard & Tina Zavitsanos
~ Méndez de la Brena, in: Marjo Kolehmainen, Annukka Lahti, Kinneret Lahad, eds. 2022. Affective Intimacies. (Manchester University Press)
~ Carolyn Lazard, Constantina Zavitsanos. 12th March 2022. Constantina Zavitsanos and Carolyn Lazard in Conversation. <https://arika.org.uk/programming/mutual- aid/programme.>
~ Sick Woman Theory, Johanna Hedva, 2022.
Part Four: Interdependency
a cacophony of crafts, Autumn/Winter
“Care must enable dependency without the expectation of exchange” & “dependency produces surplus” – Carolyn Lazard & Tina Zavitsanos
“In plant communities, reciprocity is not based on direct exchange but rather through networks of reciprocity” – Bellacasa
~ Carolyn Lazard, Constantina Zavitsanos. 12th March 2022. Constantina Zavitsanos and Carolyn Lazard in Conversation. <https://arika.org.uk/programming/mutual- aid/programme.>
~ Puig de la Bellacasa, María. 2017. Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press)
~ Rother, Grace. 2022. Queer Quilt Making
~ Jess Bailey’s zine, Many Hands Make a Quilt: Short Histories of Radical Quilting.