It has been a year since the one year challenge began… no bells and whistles went off, not even a sense of subtle satisfaction reverberated through me, the most apparent reality was that I, and this project are really just in process. There is no going back to slapping on the old jeans, and white T-shirt before working at the farm…
But we have come a long way.. and the ‘we’ really became a ‘we’. This image is a reminder of this journey– it all started with Heidi Iverson, Paige Green, and the love of natural dyes. It grew into a community 30 times that size. On our one year anniversary we bring the original team back together with a twist.
Here’s a Heidi Iverson hand-knit Sally Fox cotton tunic in two layers, dyed in indigo– worn by me at the dye farm, picture taken by Paige Green… thanks ladies, we wouldn’t have been able to do this without you.
This way of living is about walking forward down the path. The questions that now reverberate through me are ones of agriculture, land, mills, jobs, water, wool, carbon, cotton and community, and until those explorations and solutions are carried out and found… I and the many other’s involved keep going.
Thanks for reading this little interlude.. more on this beautiful journey soon…