Seeding the Dye Garden at the Bard Farm

with Artist-in-Residence Beka Goedde, Bard Farmer and Educator Rebecca Yoshino, and guest speaker Lucille Grignon of Ancient Roots Homestead

Montgomery Place Greenhouse

March 27th, 11am EDT

As planting season approaches and the ground dreams of thawing, we begin to wake the seeds with soil and warmth: Join Beka Goedde, Artist-in-Residence Rebecca Yoshino, Bard Farm Manager and Educator, and Lucy Grignon of Ancient Roots Homestead for seeding dye plants. We will gather with seeds March 27th, 2023 at 11am EDT in the Montgomery Place Greenhouse on unceded Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican homelands.

Goedde is leading a collaborative research project in natural dye techniques with Grignon and Yoshino, where they are developing a garden of sustainably grown dye plants. The project hopes to culminate in a reference swatch book shared between Ancient Roots Homestead and Bard Farm, further expansion of work with natural dye projects on Bard campus, and a deeper understanding of Indigenous historical and present day relationships of these plants and seeds.

Learn more about collaborative research grant opportunities at rethinkingplace.bard.edu/opportunities.

Lucille Grignon is a homesteader at Ancient Roots Homestead, which is located on the Stockbridge-Munsee Reservation. She has transitioned from teaching in a modern colonial classroom into working as an educator of ancient Indigenous skills, ideas, and traditions guided by the ways of her ancestors.