indigo.in.green

rooted in nature, made by hand

connecting with nature
through art and craft projects, field trips to green spaces, and plant portraits

08/03/2025

Fun plant friends on a fam field trip to

07/21/2025

indigo mermaid water waiting to be transformed into beautiful blue.

05/29/2025

Now in view another installment of Sessions with the Muse: The Will of Inherited Materials. Made from things that came to me—gifts, remnants, and objects I inherited by one way or another. These textile works are conversations, discussion threads, calling and listening as I seek the counsel of muses and ancestors to guide the present, when the uncertainty in front of me feels bigger and more unknown than I know how to process alone.

This body of work considers connection, care, stories of origin, and the omphalos—the navel as evidence of connection, a place of origin and return, a gathering point that links us to source, to self, to collective memory, to generations before. These are offerings to the center, where we are all connected.

05/17/2025

Garden, garden, woods, more garden at home. Racking up miles as indigo fairy visiting the Village to deliver indigo dyed aprons for the showcase, then planted indigo for the indigo project. Fungi in the woods and irises in the Indigo in Green garden looking like beautiful aliens.

05/09/2025

May bday celebrations begin, delightful connections, singing to the indigo every day together, dancing in the woods, art tracing lineage, lots of good tea. These are joyful, heart filling things—much needed things

04/19/2025

What a glorious day for Spring Fest . I was so inspired by the Botanical Color & Collage pieces made with (thank you Julie!) I love art making together in nature, using materials like indigo grown in the kitchen garden and the bark from pruning cuttings in the orchard . Great to see so many familiar earth work friends and farmers—and to make new ones too!

12/14/2024

This set of crayons is years in the making: PHILLY CHARCOAL - During a winter orchard care and pruning workshop with the Philadelphia Orchard Project we removed mummified fruit from a peach tree at Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden, and collected some for this natural color experiment. We also collected peach pits from the base of a peach tree outside of the Warrington Street Community Garden in West Philadelphia—where I was gifted the best peach I’ve ever eaten in my entire life—and from the Open Kitchen Sculpture Garden. This year at the Fair Amount Food Forest, we collected shells from below the hardy almond (a cross between a peach and an almond tree) to add to the collectionOnce we had enough to fill an old tea tin, we transformed them into charcoal as outlined by Nick Neddo in The Organic Artist for Kids. We added birthday wishes written on bits of paper to the fire and intentions for a magical fire. Once cooled the pit charcoal was ground into a fine powder and mixed with beeswax from Harvey’s Honey and wax gifted from Pia St. Onge to create these color blocks.

SOLEIL
Goldenrod pigment from plants in the In Situ Polyculture Commons meadow, yellow ochre earth pigment, gifted yellow rocks from 7-year-old Ellison, turmeric root powder, & Port K beeswax

INDIGO CONNECTION
Maya blue pigment created with bentonite clay and indigo powder from Philly-grown indigo—extracted from the leaves of plants grown at Bartram’s Garden and at the Indigo in Green/Nippon St. Garden. Indigo plant seeds for my garden came from True Love Seeds, Blue Light Junction, & Grand Prismatic. Also made with lots of love, time, and care, plus Verona green earth and wax gifted from fiber and & fine artist, Pia St. Onge.

AVOCADO ♥
Avocado pit pigment, Blue Ridge Mountain red earth, cochineal pigment, alkanet root, beetroot powder, & local beeswax

CHAI IN THE ORCHARD
Sankofa Farm Orchard plum tree bark pigment, Random Tea Room chai tea pigment, clay earth pigment, cardamom, and local beeswax

12/11/2024

Beautiful mess of the day: Maya blue watercolor & botanical pigment paints. Finding homes in these perfect little ceramic palettes by Indigo grown in my garden with plants from and lake pigments made from carrot tops from , wild carrot from , and marigolds from /

12/03/2024

Cozy. As I’m gearing up for holiday markets, it is still and chilly out, so today is all about light, fun, and nourishing myself with all the most cozy things: V’s chicken soup from , chai from , scarves dyed with nature, cute cashmere sweater and handwoven hot water bottles, repairing my favorite mittens with handspun wool mending threads dyed with plants and awe. How are you nourishing yourself and staying cozy today? All recommendations for optimal hygge welcome!

11/24/2024

It’s happening! 🎁 Starting tomorrow, I’ll be at the Christmas Village with my handcrafted gifts and natural art supplies. Come find me at booth 11 with LA21 alongside an incredible group of Philly-based small businesses. ✨ Come say hi and snag a crafty treat to create your own handmade holiday gifts. 📍 Map in post to help you find us!  

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