Meet Tara Lynn Scheidet March 30,2023 We recently connected with Tara Lynn Scheidet and have shared our conversation below. Tara Lynn, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. We’d love to hear about when you first realized...
Butterflies and Moths for Inspiration My Earth Bitch designs take inspiration from all sorts of places. Sometimes I add in a pair of playful squirrels, other times I’ve used mushrooms because they are infinitely more intricate than most people realize. I’m also...
January 2023 My interest in natural dyes was roused in my teenage years. I remember begging my parents to send me to Oregon to take a mushroom dying class with Miriam Rice. I missed that opportunity so I experimented on my own. In my parent’s basement I used hemp...
Back in the Studio- I collected a few specimens from the woods to begin working on an Earth Bitch Jacket dedicated to endangered mushrooms. Deforestation, fertilizer run off and unknown, unrecorded, un-researched circumstances are all responsible for the decline of...
November 2020 I set off into the woods to study fungi. I was pleasantly surprised by the diversity of mushrooms growing on such a cold day in November, in Vermont. Once I discovered a species and started to take a closer look I forgot about how cold my fingers and...
