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Primary Palette

Primary Palette:  Three Powerful Plant-Sourced Pigments Last year, in preparation for my Waste Not Urine blog and workshop I wrote a lot about Japanese Indigo and how regular application of diluted urine can significantly improve growth rate and lead to more frequent harvesting.  I talked about the multi-step process of pigment extraction, and the historically […]

Indigo Sig Vat

Waste not: Urine – Part 2: The Indigo Sig Vat This post is part of a series exploring the historical and modern applications for human urine.  Part 1 is available here. At the end of the previous post I left off with a short anecdote about how last year I set out to grow my […]