click to go to the “SEED, Summer 2013” blogDocumenting the Pilot of Project GROW’s Youth Training Initiative(retired, no longer being added to) index of posts from that blog Project GROW was founded in 2011 to work with others to restore our Penn-York Valley’s food system September 1, 2013 Youth Training Initiative Leadership September 1, 2013 MAPS OF […]
Our Project Grow
click to go to the “Our Project GROW” blog, 2013-2014(retired, no longer being added to) index of posts from that blog Frequent Harvesting for Increased Yields June 27, 2014 Passive Irrigation with Berm and Swale June 20, 2014 Oakland spring garden after rain! April 1, 2014 Youth Training Initiative Pilot, 2013 August 1, 2013 Report on pilot of the […]
SKEIN
1. Skein2. Judith, Skein RI website3. Skein, Destiny4. Skein, Judith, Destiny and Fibershed 1. Skein Destiny and Judith have each been involved with textiles all their adult lives. Sweat equity partner Bernadette Zambrano has brought her unique talents of seed savings and liaison to the native American community to Reinhabitory Institute. 2. Judith, Skein RI website […]
Skein involvement in feasibility of restoring flax-to-linen culture in U.S.
Slides from a presentation made by Destiny Kinal, Reinhabitory Institute at the August 2016 symposium titled Flax & Linen: Following the Thread from Past to Present August 20th-21st, 2016 at Historic Deerfield, in Deerfield, Massachusetts held by The New England Flax and Linen Study Group, in collaboration with Historic Deerfield.
RI Indigo Planting and Processing Collaboration
Fibershed‘s Craig wilkinson provided REINHABITORY Institute with indigo seedlings, germinated by Headstart and by Wilkinson, which RI has planted in collaboration with East Bay Waldorf School in El Sobrante CA. Gill tract community farm, collaborating with UCBerkeley, hasNurseried RI’s flat of homegrown indigo in their greenhouse, ready to plant. Fibershed’ Wilkinson expects to realize two harvests of […]
On-the-ground
Skein is planting indigo, with the intention of being one of the participants in Fibershed’s indigo fermentation floor. Participants will take home the percent share of indigo dye they put into the fermentation in dried indigo. Kinal helped a group build the fermentation floor in Nicasio, CA in Marin County. [link to blog and photos of […]