Growing a Regenerative Dye Garden
About Growing a Regenerative Dye Garden
Cultivate a rainbow of dyes in your own backyard! From planning your garden to harvesting brilliant dye pigments, this course covers everything you need to know to raise a crop of indigo, madder, and many other plants you can use to dye, mordant, print, and protect your textiles. Learn how to apply wisdom from regenerative farming and permaculture to any size garden, whether you have containers on a balcony or an acre for growing. All students will receive a dye seed starter set.
What will students learn:
Students will learn:
* Understanding your growing region
* Building nutrient-rich soil
* Planning a garden for any size space or growing scenario
* Finding the best dye plants for your purposes
* In-depth plant profiles (propagation, cultivation, harvesting) for all the major dye plants
* Harvesting and storing pigment
* Growing and using dye-assist plants, such as symplocos and soy
* Resources for seeds and more
Materials, Equipment, and Supplies the Student Must Bring to Class
Pen or pencil
Materials Kit and Kit Description
Your class registration fee includes a materials kit with a value of $10 which includes:
* 20+ page spiral-bound course book
* dye seed starter kit (including, minimally, seeds for Japanese indigo, weld, madder, cosmos, and coreopsis)
Pre-class Homework
None
Age Range
Minimum age requirement for workshop: 15
Skill Level
All Levels
What skills or knowledge do students need to take this workshop?
No experience necessary.
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When
Single 2-hour live in-person seminar.
Class Location
Classroom 14
How It Works
Register and enroll above. Enrollment is not complete until payment is made on the next page, by credit card or Paypal via our secure platform. Enrolled students will receive an immediate email confirmation of enrollment..
Refund Policy: To cancel an enrollment or request a refund, contact [email protected]. For 30+ days before, we refund 95%. Between 30 and 5 days, receive a 75% refund. No refunds within 5 days of class start date.
Bethany Hebbard
Gardening host Bethany Joy Hebbard is a knitter, sewist, and dyer. Her husband is a permaculture-trained farmer, and together they keep a large garden on their suburban homestead in Jamestown, North Carolina. Bethany has a strong love of local fibers and dye traditions, and teaches classes on cultivating dye plants, fresh-leaf indigo, and more.
Back to Carolina FiberFestAbout Lessonface, PBC & the Carolina FiberFest
Lessonface's mission is to help students achieve their goals while treating teachers equitably. Since 2012, we've hosted more than 30,000 students and 2,000 teachers for over 500,000 music, language, and arts lessons and classes online. The 20th annual Carolina FiberFest is March 13-14, 2026 at the NC State Fairgrounds, Raleigh NC. Workshops will be held Thurs. March 12 - Sat. March 14, 2026.