Tinctoria

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 • Erin from Berbo Studio
The Pinyons, the Fire, and the Spring
The spring is ten miles down a dirt road, which is fifty miles up the forest road.
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A Garden of Color
Join me in the garden—for my first workshop in Ojai
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The Dyer’s Almanac: Rose
On edgelands, alternative routes, latent color and chemistry
 • Erin from Berbo Studio
A Solstice Invitation
to an end of summer celebration in the Santa Ynez Mountains, California
 • Erin from Berbo Studio
The Dyer's Almanac: Local Plants
Lists of California dye plants, my master dye recipe, and an origin story
 • Erin from Berbo Studio
The Dyer's Almanac: Fennel
Exploring fennel's natural color and natural history in California
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What the Tide Reveals
Shimmering relics—abalone shells—and where the past flows into the present
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Alone, Together
Where climate change and disaster meet an animate world
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From a New Watershed
A brief update and a new essay
 • Erin from Berbo Studio
Tinctoria
Tinctoria
Notes from a naturalist and natural dyer living, engaging, and creating with the ecological communities of California.
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